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DAVID RUSSELL BOSWORTH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 10, 1947 – February 20, 1968
Service recordDavid Russell Bosworth, of Skowhegan, Maine, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 36
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- October 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Skowhegan, Maine (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 36
- JOHN ANTHONY BAFILESpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
- JOHN FRANK BARANOSKIPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- RONNIE O BIGELOWSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- DANIEL ROGER BODINCorporal · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 40
- NICHOLAS PAUL LIGAMMARISpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 43
From Skowhegan
- JOSEPH RALPH FOSSSpecialist Five · April 5, 1965
- CLYDE WILLIAM WITHEEPrivate · February 25, 1966
- JOSEPH G L QUIRION JRCorporal · April 3, 1968
- ALLEN LEA WARDPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
- TERRY CHARLES CORSONSergeant · September 8, 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.