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DAVID STEVEN LASSITER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 28, 1945 – August 17, 1968
Service recordDavid Steven Lassiter, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 33
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 17, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 33
- MICKY RAY HIGHLANDERPrivate First Class · August 17, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM IGERTPrivate First Class · August 17, 1968
- NOBE RAY KOONTZ JRCaptain · August 17, 1968
- LOREN VICTOR LEEPrivate First Class · August 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN CHARLES THOMASPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 35
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.