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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David John Pellosma.

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DAVID JOHN PELLOSMA

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 22, 1946 – February 22, 1969

Service record

David John Pellosma, of Atlantic Mine, Michigan, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 22, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32W · Line 82

Position of Panel 32W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
April 22, 1946
Home of record
Atlantic Mine, Michigan (Houghton County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32W, Line 82

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.