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DAVID LITTLEHALE FARLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 26, 1944 – October 9, 1967
Service recordDavid Littlehale Farley, of Brunswick, Maine, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 81
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
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 26, 1944
- Home of record
- Brunswick, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 81
- GREEN LEE HARTPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- JIMMY ROSS HOHSTADTPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- BARRY ALAN HUNTERPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD KNADLESecond Lieutenant · October 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD JOSEPH BLOTZERPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 79
- WILLIAM ROBERT BRAYSecond Lieutenant · Panel 27E, Line 79
- WILLIS WAYNE EMERTONPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 80
- RICHARD RAY IRWIN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 80
- GREEN LEE HARTPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 81
- JIMMY ROSS HOHSTADTPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 81
- ROBERT JAMES LAZAROSecond Lieutenant · Panel 27E, Line 82
- BERNARD JAMES MEIRNDORFPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 82
- CHARLES EDWARD MOLANOPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 82
- JOEL CLYDE ROPERPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 83
- RONALD S SANDELPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 83
- STEPHEN JAY SMITHPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 83
From Brunswick
- EARL STANLEY GARRISONPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- RONALD RUSSELL FITCHSpecialist Four · November 20, 1968
- JAMES DANIEL CRESSEY JRLance Corporal · January 13, 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.