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DAVID ROY SCHAEFER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 9, 1948 – May 1, 1969
Service recordDavid Roy Schaefer, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 1, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 94
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (Door County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 1, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 1, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 94
- JOHN DAVID SEXTONSergeant · May 1, 1969
- RICHARD STEPHEN SLYFirst Lieutenant · May 1, 1969
- AMMONS EWING SMITH JRPrivate First Class · May 1, 1969
- WAYNE ALAN STEVENSPrivate First Class · May 1, 1969
Same unit, same day
- KERNELL PERSONE BRADSBYPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 89
From Sturgeon Bay
- DAN LEON PFISTERSergeant First Class · June 18, 1968
- PHILIP MOREY OVERBECKFirst Lieutenant · June 10, 1970
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.