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DAVID JOE BERRY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 28, 1947 – April 28, 1968
Service recordDavid Joe Berry, of Bellflower, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 33
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Bellflower, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 52E, Line 33
- DAVID LYNN BARBERSecond Lieutenant · April 28, 1968
- DAVID THOMAS BARNESSpecialist Four · April 28, 1968
- FREDRICK E BAUERLE IIISpecialist Four · April 28, 1968
- JORDAN BELCHERSpecialist Five · April 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS GRADY STRICKLINPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 44
From Bellflower
- DUDLEY WAYNE MAYOSeaman · May 10, 1965
- FRED THOMAS EARLESPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GOODENPrivate First Class · July 15, 1966
- BERRY JOE BRIDGESPrivate First Class · June 14, 1967
- JACK PATRICK COTTERELLSpecialist Four · January 25, 1968
- CHARLES CLAIR THOMPSONSpecialist Four · April 11, 1968
- TOMMY WAYNE JOHNSTONSpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- ROBERT CLARENCE EWALDLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- DONALD ACE PETTITTPrivate · December 13, 1968
- VINCENT VENUTI JRPrivate First Class · January 10, 1969
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.