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DAVID MCLEAN DESILETS
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
October 16, 1940 – September 4, 1966
Service recordDavid Mclean Desilets, of Palm Desert, California, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 4, 1966, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Born
- October 16, 1940
- Home of record
- Palm Desert, California
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 4, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Added to the Wall
- 2012
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 77
- WILSON JUNIOR MAIZEPrivate First Class · September 8, 1966
- CARL DEANE METROSPrivate First Class · September 8, 1966
- TOMMY MORALESPrivate First Class · September 8, 1966
- FRANCIS XAVIER NAVACorporal · September 8, 1966
- ROBERT LEWIS PERRYPrivate First Class · September 8, 1966
From Palm Desert
- OTTO PAUL MEYER IIIPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2012, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.