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DAVID LEE DELAUGHDER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 19, 1949 – April 20, 1967
Service recordDavid Lee Delaughder, of Augusta, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 20, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 52
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- G CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- February 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Augusta, Kansas (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “G CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 52
- GEORGE TYRUS BEANSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
- JAVIER BECERRALance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- EDUARDO PAUL BRANESSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
- RUFUS RAY CROOMSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ANTHONY GALUTZCorporal · Panel 18E, Line 53
From Augusta
- DONALD ALLEN EVANSCaptain · January 30, 1968
- CLINTON DWIGHT PIERCEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1969
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.