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DAVID MARTIN PETERSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 12, 1948 – May 9, 1969
Service recordDavid Martin Peterson, of Edina, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 32
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)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Edina, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 32
- FREDERICK JOHN MAGSAMENSergeant · May 9, 1969
- RICHARD JAMES PICKARDSpecialist Five · May 9, 1969
- GUY LEON PRATT JRFirst Lieutenant · May 9, 1969
- JAMES ALBERT SANDERSPrivate First Class · May 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GUY LEON PRATT JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 25W, Line 32
From Edina
- ROBERT BRUCE RANDALLPrivate First Class · August 29, 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.