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DAVID K DEMATTEIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 21, 1948 – March 2, 1968
Service recordDavid K Dematteis, of Collinsville, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 30
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Collinsville, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
100 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 30
- JAMES ALLEN COREYLance Corporal · March 2, 1968
- NICHOLAS JOSEPH CUTINHASpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- BRUCE ELIOT JRSpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- NORMAN JOSEPH ERBLANDSergeant · March 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANNY MIRE STONEKINGPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 42
From Collinsville
- CHARLES BERNARD LANKFORDStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1963
- ROBERT WILCOX MOODYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1966
- ADAM EDWARD WERSCHINGSergeant · March 2, 1967
- RICHARD LYNN MOOREPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- NORMAN EUGENE THOMASStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
- JERRY LEE DODSONLance Corporal · February 25, 1968
- LUCKY GAYLEN WHITEPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- EDWARD MONROE SIMPSONSergeant · May 11, 1968
- ALVIN LEE EVANOFFSpecialist Four · December 6, 1970
- DAVID PAUL MEYERWarrant Officer 1 · May 7, 1971
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.