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DAVID KEITH HUFFMAN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 26, 1945 – September 11, 1968
Service recordDavid Keith Huffman, of Speedway, Indiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 24
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Communitions Chief (31G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Speedway, Indiana (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 44W, Line 24
- STEVEN ROBERT FRESEPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSEPH GAGNIERSergeant · September 11, 1968
- JESUS MARIA GARCIAGunnery Sergeant · September 11, 1968
- ROLAND ALLEN GORSCHBOTHPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
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.