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DAVID JAMES EWING
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 17, 1948 – May 22, 1969
Service recordDavid James Ewing, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 75
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 54 MED DET USARV
- Born
- September 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “54 MED DET USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 75
- JOHNNY MANUEL CRUZSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
- ULYSSES C HASSELLSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
- JERRY WAYNE HESKETTSergeant · May 22, 1969
- CHARLES ALEXANDER JONESSergeant First Class · May 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EMMETT LAYMAN JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 24W, Line 77
- JEFFERY ALLEN RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 79
- FREDRICK STEPHEN WALTERSWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 24W, Line 80
From Bloomfield Hills
- BRIAN ALEXANDER MARSHALLPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- MICHAEL ROBERT RICHSecond Lieutenant · November 5, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD BRAIDSergeant · June 23, 1969
- PATRICK THOMAS DEWULFCorporal · July 20, 1970
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.