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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Lee Bingamon.

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DAVID LEE BINGAMON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 3, 1944 – July 11, 1968

Service record

David Lee Bingamon, of Mt Oreb, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 52W · Line 14

Position of Panel 52W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 SIGNAL BDE
Born
June 3, 1944
Home of record
Mt Oreb, Ohio (Brown County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1968
Age
24
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 52W, Line 14

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.