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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Jerrell Enmon.

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DAVID JERRELL ENMON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 29, 1945 – June 15, 1967

Service record

David Jerrell Enmon, of La Marque, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 104

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Mason (51D)
Unit (as recorded)
D CO 589 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
June 29, 1945
Home of record
La Marque, Texas (Galveston County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 15, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “D CO 589 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 104

From La Marque

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.