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DAVID REED DEPRIEST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 17, 1946 – March 25, 1968
Service recordDavid Reed Depriest, of Rugby, North Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 588 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- September 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Rugby, North Dakota (Pierce County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 16
- TOM DAVIS JRStaff Sergeant · March 25, 1968
- DAVID EUGENE DEWITTSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
- LOUIS MAGIN GARCIACorporal · March 25, 1968
- LARRY MARSHALL GRONEWOLDPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
From Rugby
- VIRGIL RAYMOND GREANYMajor · September 25, 1964
- DONALD JEAN SOBYPrivate First Class · July 7, 1967
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.