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DAVID MCBRIDE TOTH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 29, 1947 – October 25, 1967
Service recordDavid McBride Toth, of Chesterland, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Chesterland, Ohio (Geauga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 25, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 71
- ARTHUR CLEON ROESLERSpecialist Four · October 25, 1967
- ELMER ROBERT LEE ABLES JRSergeant First Class · October 26, 1967
- RICHARD JOSEPH ACEVEDOLance Corporal · October 26, 1967
- DAVID ALLAN BARTLETTLance Corporal · October 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD SYLVESTER MOSESSpecialist Four · Panel 28E, Line 69
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.