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DAVID SMITH II
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 26, 1947 – June 23, 1968
Service recordDavid Smith II, of Elizabethtown, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 24
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, North Carolina (Bladen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1968; six of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 55W, Line 24
- ERNEST VON SHOMPANYCorporal · June 23, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SHORTERPrivate First Class · June 23, 1968
- CLETUS DALE TUTTLEStaff Sergeant · June 23, 1968
- JAMES B WASHINGTONPrivate · June 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LOUIS GEORGE HEILFirst Lieutenant · Panel 55W, Line 21
- RUPERTO MEDINA-GONZALEZCorporal · Panel 55W, Line 22
- TERRY JOSEPH PATRICK NEILLCorporal · Panel 55W, Line 22
- KENNETH EUGENE NOLANDPrivate First Class · Panel 55W, Line 22
- GEORGE DON SCHILLINGSergeant · Panel 55W, Line 23
- CLETUS DALE TUTTLEStaff Sergeant · Panel 55W, Line 24
- JAMES B WASHINGTONPrivate · Panel 55W, Line 24
From Elizabethtown
- WILLIAM R RUSSPrivate First Class · November 7, 1967
- THOMAS FREDRICK SWANN JRFirst Lieutenant · May 10, 1968
- ARTHUR R NEWKIRKSpecialist Five · May 25, 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.