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DAVID PAUL THIBODEAU
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 30, 1949 – July 19, 1968
Service recordDavid Paul Thibodeau, of Rumford, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 19, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 13
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Radar Operator (0842)
- Born
- March 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Rumford, Maine (Oxford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 13
- RENE THOMAS PRUDENPrivate First Class · July 19, 1968
- JOSE ANTO RIVERA-BERMUDEZSpecialist Four · July 19, 1968
- CHARLES FRANCIS RUBADOLance Corporal · July 19, 1968
- AMOS CHESTER SHERRILL IIPrivate First Class · July 19, 1968
From Rumford
- PETER LEE DUBECorporal · August 2, 1967
- THOMAS BERNARD FERGUSONSecond Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
- HARRY EVERETT THERIAULTCorporal · May 12, 1969
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.