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DAVID LEE TEMPLETON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 13, 1949 – December 27, 1970
Service recordDavid Lee Templeton, of St Marys, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1970, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 12
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
- Carpentry And Masonry Specialist (51B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- November 13, 1949
- Home of record
- St Marys, West Virginia (Pleasants County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tuyen Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1970; he was the only one lost in Tuyen Duc Province that day. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 12
- JERRY EDWARD HANCOCKLance Corporal · December 27, 1970
- BRADLEY ELLIOTT SANDFORDFirst Sergeant · December 27, 1970
- CARVER JOE VAUGHANSergeant · December 27, 1970
- ROBERT D ARNALLCorporal · December 28, 1970
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE GENE BANGSSpecialist Five · Panel 5W, Line 10
From St Marys
- JOSEPH LEE RHINEHARTPrivate First Class · May 30, 1967
- WILLIAM WAYNE WILSONPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- WILLIAM BLAINE ROLLINS JRSpecialist Four · January 18, 1969
- CHARLES WILLARD MILLER JRCorporal · February 7, 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.