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DAVID PHERRAL DUNYON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 21, 1949 – July 27, 1968
Service recordDavid Pherral Dunyon, of Ogden, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 18
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- March 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Ogden, Utah (Weber County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 27, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date July 27, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 18
- TERRY LEE DILLARDCorporal · July 27, 1968
- JAMES EDSALLLance Corporal · July 27, 1968
- WILLIAM LOYD FOLEYPrivate First Class · July 27, 1968
- JOSEPH RALPH FRANCKOWIAKCorporal · July 27, 1968
From Ogden
- DARREL L PRICESpecialist Four · January 10, 1967
- LYNN ELMO HUNTERSergeant · February 26, 1967
- RANDOLPH BUCK WARDPrivate First Class · March 14, 1967
- RONALD LEE JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · April 10, 1967
- VERNE DEWITT JOHNSON IIIPrivate First Class · October 27, 1967
- JOSEPH GARY VOGRINECPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- ROBERT KENT HORSPOOLPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- BRENT F WARDLance Corporal · May 6, 1968
- LAWRENCE FREDRICK BONDFirst Lieutenant · June 9, 1968
- FRANKLIN JOE HINERCaptain · June 25, 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.