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DAVID ROBERT TURNER
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 27, 1945 – December 8, 1968
Service recordDavid Robert Turner, of Walnut Creek, California, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 70
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
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Officer (I) (0802)
- Born
- December 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Walnut Creek, California (Contra Costa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 70
- PETER STEPHEN STRATEGOSLance Corporal · December 8, 1968
- KARL GORMAN TAYLORStaff Sergeant · December 8, 1968
- PHILIP ALLEN TERRYSergeant · December 8, 1968
- JIMMIE MALCOLM THOMPSONPetty Officer Third Class · December 8, 1968
From Walnut Creek
- ROBERT JOHN REILLY JRLance Corporal · December 9, 1965
- JOHN PATRICK BURKEPrivate First Class · February 14, 1967
- FRANK CHICO TORRES JRSpecialist Four · May 5, 1967
- JAMES KEVIN KOEHLERLance Corporal · June 11, 1967
- DAVID ALAN OBERLELance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- RICHARD CURTISPrivate First Class · December 12, 1967
- WILLARD EDWARD NELSONLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- ERNEST FREDERICK LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- BRUCE FRANCIS MCMILLANCaptain · April 11, 1968
- FRED JOE HAYESStaff Sergeant · April 13, 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.