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DAVID LEIGH BURNETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 22, 1948 – April 5, 1969
Service recordDavid Leigh Burnett, of Lone Pine, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 5, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 15
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Lone Pine, California (Inyo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 15
- WILLIAM EDWARD BOONE IVPetty Officer Third Class · April 5, 1969
- JAMES ALBERT BROCKCorporal · April 5, 1969
- LOUIS BROWNCorporal · April 5, 1969
- DONALD LEO CLINESergeant · April 5, 1969
From Lone Pine
- ERNEST EUSTACE PEREZCorporal · June 30, 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.