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DAVID RAY BLACKBURN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 30, 1944 – November 28, 1967
Service recordDavid Ray Blackburn, of Cocoa Beach, Florida, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 28, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 82
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 30, 1944
- Home of record
- Cocoa Beach, Florida (Brevard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 28, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date November 28, 1967; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 82
- WILLIAM CARY SMITHPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- RAMON HERNANDEZ TORRESSergeant · November 24, 1967
- WILLIAM JOHN TSCHUMIPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- CHARLES LEE WILKStaff Sergeant · November 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM GARY HALLCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 101
- EDWARD REYNOLDS NAYLOR JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 30E, Line 102
From Cocoa Beach
- RANDOLPH BURNS MCKELLIPSSergeant · February 23, 1971
- ORIE JOHN DUBBELD JRFirst Lieutenant · March 3, 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.