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DAVID ROGER CHATTERTON
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
March 29, 1938 – July 18, 1967
Service recordDavid Roger Chatterton, of Twin Falls, Idaho, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 18, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 85
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Asw Technician (AX)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- March 29, 1938
- Home of record
- Twin Falls, Idaho (Twin Falls County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 85
- TYRONE DARRETTPrivate First Class · July 18, 1967
- DON EDDIE DAVISPrivate First Class · July 18, 1967
- ROBERT LEVETT GENTRYPrivate First Class · July 18, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN GIOVANACCISpecialist Four · July 18, 1967
From Twin Falls
- JAMES HERBERT ALLREDMajor · December 14, 1963
- BRENT JOHN BAUMERTSergeant · April 26, 1966
- RICHARD BUCK CARLSONSergeant · November 4, 1966
- BILLY GENE SMITHSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- HERMAN AUGUSTA LOHMAN JRCorporal · April 6, 1968
- LARRY DALE COATSLance Corporal · September 3, 1968
- ALLAN THEO ASLETTPrivate First Class · September 27, 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.