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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Lee Nord.

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DAVID LEE NORD

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 8, 1948 – June 23, 1969

Service record

David Lee Nord, of Ferdinand, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 123

Position of Panel 22W 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
May 8, 1948
Home of record
Ferdinand, Indiana (Dubois County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 23, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

65 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1969; six of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 123

Same unit, same day

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.