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DAVID PAUL OKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 18, 1945 – January 20, 1969
Service recordDavid Paul Oker, of Isanti, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 20, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 44
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Isanti, Minnesota (Isanti County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 20, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 44
- JOHN MACARTHUR PAGESecond Lieutenant · January 20, 1969
- ROY FRANKLIN PHILLIPSSecond Lieutenant · January 20, 1969
- NORMAN WALLACE PIERREPetty Officer First Class · January 20, 1969
- WESLEY ROY POTTERCorporal · January 20, 1969
From Isanti
- DUANE ARVID PETERSONSergeant · May 5, 1970
- CLARENCE DEAN HAKESWarrant Officer 1 · February 24, 1971
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.