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DAVID LEE URBAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 27, 1943 – December 3, 1968
Service recordDavid Lee Urban, of Chardon, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 34
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- April 27, 1943
- Home of record
- Chardon, Ohio (Geauga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 34
- ADOLFO MEDARDO ESTRADAPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
- HOWARD HERCHER MAYERCorporal · December 3, 1968
- BENJAMIN MELVINPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
- STEVEN VICTOR MERSHONSpecialist Four · December 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY LAMONT CUNNINGHAMStaff Sergeant · Panel 37W, Line 30
- LESLIE DONALD ROSEKRANSSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 35
From Chardon
- CHARLES JOHN HILDENBRANDPrivate First Class · June 19, 1967
- WILLIAM IVAN INMANCorporal · May 3, 1968
- PAUL JAY KINGERYSergeant · May 13, 1968
- ERNEST ALVIN MOLZONPrivate First Class · May 30, 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.