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DAVID RICHARD BINNS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 18, 1949 – May 15, 1968
Service recordDavid Richard Binns, of Reseda, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 19
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)
- Born
- September 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Reseda, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 19
- WARDELL BORDERSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- ANDREW JOSEPH BRINZO IIISpecialist Four · May 15, 1968
- NORMAN CURTIS BRUBAKERStaff Sergeant · May 15, 1968
- DONALD DAVID CROWTHERPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
From Reseda
- ARTHUR LOREN HAWKINS JRCorporal · November 10, 1967
- PATRICK LOUIS BRUCKNERLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL TOWNSEND JRPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GEROMESergeant · May 7, 1968
- JOE RAY COURTNEY JRCorporal · May 22, 1968
- DAVID COURTNEY DAHLINSergeant · September 12, 1968
- THOMAS LEE CARTERCaptain · November 10, 1968
- STEPHEN SCOTT NIEDERHAUSESpecialist Five · February 26, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD HARRISONCorporal · March 9, 1969
- JOHN ANDREW LESTELLE IIPrivate First Class · March 17, 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.