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DAVID LYNN KIRKEBY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 21, 1947 – May 10, 1968
Service recordDavid Lynn Kirkeby, of Drayton, North Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 10, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 10
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wireman (2511)
- Born
- October 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Drayton, North Dakota (Pembina County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 10
- GERALD EUGENE KINGCorporal · May 10, 1968
- OLIVER KASPER KORANDOSergeant · May 10, 1968
- RICHARD DENNIS KOSARSergeant · May 10, 1968
- CALVIN RAY LEESergeant · May 10, 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.