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DAVID LEWIS GLASSCOCK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 11, 1944 – March 29, 1967
Service recordDavid Lewis Glasscock, of Rockwall, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 11, 1944
- Home of record
- Rockwall, Texas (Rockwall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 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.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
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.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 67
- JOHN WILLARD CLARYPlatoon Sergeant · March 29, 1967
- JOHN COYLESpecialist Four · March 29, 1967
- JAMES LEWIS FIELDSStaff Sergeant · March 29, 1967
- WILLIAM HADLEY HOSEACaptain · March 29, 1967
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.