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DAVID SEELEY PELLEW
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 27, 1948 – March 18, 1969
Service recordDavid Seeley Pellew, of Goshen, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 72
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Goshen, New York (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 72
- JAMES LESTER PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- WILLIAM MARK PHINNLance Corporal · March 18, 1969
- JAMES MICHAEL PINTOLAPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- EMMETT TERENCE PRINGLEPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS MITCHELL DEITZStaff Sergeant · Panel 29W, Line 67
- JOHN WILLIAM PARHAMSergeant · Panel 29W, Line 71
From Goshen
- ALAN WAYNE ANDREWSSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH HEFNERPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT BECKSergeant · August 30, 1968
- HERBERT JAMES WISHERSpecialist Four · October 12, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD HUESTISSecond Lieutenant · May 22, 1969
- PETER LYNCHSpecialist Four · June 11, 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.