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DAVID RICHARD SIMONS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 10, 1945 – January 4, 1968
Service recordDavid Richard Simons, of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1968; nine of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 33E, Line 41
- DWIGHT FRANCIS RANDSergeant · January 4, 1968
- NATHANIEL ROBERT ROSESergeant · January 4, 1968
- JAMES WILLIE ROY IIISpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
- DAVID LOWELL SIMONStaff Sergeant · January 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK OLIVARES TABOADAPrivate · Panel 33E, Line 42
- PAUL HERMAN VILLAROSASergeant First Class · Panel 33E, Line 43
From Huntingdon Valley
- PAUL SCHECKLERLance Corporal · July 3, 1968
- MICHAEL ANTHONY PASTORINOSpecialist Four · November 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.