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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Lee Eaton.

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DAVID LEE EATON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 25, 1946 – November 21, 1967

Service record

David Lee Eaton, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 54

Position of Panel 30E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 25, 1946
Home of record
Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 54

Same unit, same day

From Cincinnati

All 226 names from Cincinnati →

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.