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DAVID PAUL MCCORD
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 17, 1945 – August 28, 1968
Service recordDavid Paul McCord, of Pentress, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 28, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 51
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cook (3371)
- Born
- January 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Pentress, West Virginia (Monongalia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 28, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 51
- ANTHONY MANGANELLO JRLance Corporal · August 28, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE MEEKSSergeant · August 28, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES MILLERMajor · August 28, 1968
- MICHAEL JEFFREY MITCHELLSergeant · August 28, 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.