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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Landrell Ginn.

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DAVID LANDRELL GINN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 4, 1950 – November 3, 1970

Service record

David Landrell Ginn, of Anderson, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on November 3, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 60

Position of Panel 2W 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 4, 1950
Home of record
Anderson, South Carolina (Anderson County)

Casualty

Date of loss
November 3, 1970
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Presumed Dead
Circumstance
Drowning
First reported
Missing
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1970; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 60

Same unit, same day

From Anderson

All 14 names from Anderson →

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.