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DAVID LEE TESSMER
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 28, 1948 – May 27, 1969
Service recordDavid Lee Tessmer, of Wausau, Wisconsin, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 4
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Wausau, Wisconsin (Marathon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 4
- DONALD YOUNG SCARBERRYSpecialist Four · May 27, 1969
- KENNETH WILLIAM SMITHSpecialist Four · May 27, 1969
- CLAUDE RICHARD VANANDELSergeant · May 27, 1969
- HAROLD JAMES WARMSLEYSpecialist Four · May 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL EUGENE GERBERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 117
- DONNIE RAY HARLEYCorporal · Panel 23W, Line 1
- WILLIAM ARTHUR SEIGLECorporal · Panel 23W, Line 3
- CONRAD ANDREW SOVASergeant · Panel 23W, Line 3
- ROBERT CLYDE YATESCorporal · Panel 23W, Line 5
From Wausau
- KENNETH DAVID ROBERTSStaff Sergeant · February 5, 1967
- JAMES MYRON RINGLEPrivate · March 31, 1967
- WAYNE DALE KRUEGERPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- RONALD JON HASKOPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- RICHARD D BARTHOLOMEW JRSpecialist Four · February 12, 1969
- GARY RAYMOND MIRACLELance Corporal · February 23, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD KRZMARCIKPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- DALE ALLEN SCHEPPLance Corporal · December 9, 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.