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DAVID LEE SCOTT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 1, 1947 – April 25, 1968
Service recordDavid Lee Scott, of Carlock, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 11
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)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Carlock, Illinois (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 52E, Line 11
- BROCK ROWLAND SCHRAMMPrivate First Class · April 25, 1968
- FRED SENA JRSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
- KENNETH GLENN SPENCERFirst Lieutenant · April 25, 1968
- GARY ALAN STADINGSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JACK BITTINGSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 2
- LINDEN DALE EILER JRCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 4
- ERVIN JAMES HOYTWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 52E, Line 4
- HUBIA JUDE GUILLORYPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 5
- DANIEL MARTIN KELLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 6
- JAMES D KENDALLSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 7
- MICHAEL PATRICK MAKUCKSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 7
- BOLEN PONDEXDER MCGEESpecialist Five · Panel 52E, Line 8
- JERRY DOYNE MCMANUSCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 9
- KENNETH GLENN SPENCERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 52E, Line 11
From Carlock
- WILLIAM EDWARD REELPrivate First Class · September 8, 1966
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.