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DAVID LEE EDNEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 6, 1948 – March 13, 1968
Service recordDavid Lee Edney, of Erwin, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 35
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Erwin, Tennessee (Unicoi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Bien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 35
- DAVID KENNETH DITCHSergeant · March 13, 1968
- RAYMOND PAUL DOBRZYNSKISpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- CLEVELAND EVANS JRStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1968
- LAWRENCE ARTHUR FULTS JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEON JOSEPH ATTERIDGE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 33
- ARNOLD PAUL SARNASpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 40
- RUBEN NOAH TACKETTSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 41
From Erwin
- DOUGLAS LEE JONESFirst Lieutenant · October 12, 1966
- RICHARD WAYNE BANNISTERPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- ALLEN EUGENE WHITELance Corporal · November 30, 1968
- JAMES JAY BRITTCorporal · December 31, 1968
- DONALD LEE GRUBBPrivate First Class · July 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.