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DAVID LEE HAMPTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 28, 1949 – March 13, 1968
Service recordDavid Lee Hampton, of Wood River, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 36
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 509 ENG CO USARV
- Born
- May 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Wood River, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Pleiku 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 36
- RONALD FRANK GOLEBIEWSKIFirst Lieutenant · March 13, 1968
- EUGENE GUBBINSSergeant First Class · March 13, 1968
- WALTER ELMER HANDYPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- GUY EDWARD RAY JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
From Wood River
- JAMES STEPHEN STASSIPrivate First Class · June 27, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES BENNETTLance Corporal · August 10, 1967
- CHRIS ANTHONY TOTORALance Corporal · October 25, 1967
- CHARLES WILBURN MOODYStaff Sergeant · April 6, 1968
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.