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DAVID LEROY PARISH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 17, 1948 – March 15, 1967
Service recordDavid Leroy Parish, of Ottumwa, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 83
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 558 ENG CO 168 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- February 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Ottumwa, Iowa (Wapello County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 83
- STEVEN RICHARD WITHERSPrivate First Class · March 14, 1967
- DONNIE RAY BEASLEYSpecialist Four · March 15, 1967
- ROBERT VICTOR CRAINSergeant First Class · March 15, 1967
- KENNETH EUGENE DOUGHERTYPrivate First Class · March 15, 1967
From Ottumwa
- KENNETH A MALLONEESpecialist Five · October 3, 1966
- TERRY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · December 20, 1967
- PAUL DAVID EKARTPetty Officer Third Class · January 26, 1968
- JOHN FRANCIS LINKSergeant · March 30, 1968
- LARRY DEAN BLEYTHINGSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- TERRY VERNON MILLERCorporal · May 29, 1969
- MICHAEL HUGH BEAVERSpecialist Four · December 29, 1969
- RUSSELL CRAIG SCULLYPrivate First Class · September 1, 1970
- DUANE ALLAN COTTRELLSpecialist Four · September 23, 1971
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.