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Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970.
Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Ives Mixter.

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DAVID IVES MIXTER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 22, 1949 – January 29, 1971

Service record

David Ives Mixter, of Darien, Connecticut, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1971, in Laos, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
January 22, 1949
Home of record
Darien, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 29, 1971
Age
22
Country
Laos
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

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What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1971. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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From Darien

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.