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DAVID WAYNE PIERCE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 16, 1948 – December 13, 1968
Service recordDavid Wayne Pierce, of Marion, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 18
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Marion, Ohio (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 18
- DONALD ACE PETTITTPrivate · December 13, 1968
- SALVATORE ALFRED ROWEPrivate First Class · December 13, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH RUSSEKSergeant · December 13, 1968
- ORLANDO ALBERTO SALASPrivate First Class · December 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHRISTOPHER ORAN BOLSTERSergeant · Panel 36W, Line 13
- LEON ROY FIELDSergeant First Class · Panel 36W, Line 15
- GILBERT STEVENS BELL JRSergeant · Panel 36W, Line 17
- WILLIE JAMES MCCLENDONSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 17
- RAYMOND JOHN WESTCorporal · Panel 36W, Line 20
From Marion
- BRUCE AUGUST NYSTROMCaptain · December 2, 1966
- ALLAN HENRY SCHULZPrivate First Class · January 1, 1967
- LARRY LEE GASKINSCorporal · October 8, 1967
- DENNIS EUGENE WARNEPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- PERRY VERNANDO SHROYERStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1968
- MICHAEL BRUCE SPICERCorporal · March 1, 1968
- KENNETH DAVID THOMPSONPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- CHARLES JOEL BEHM JRSergeant · April 30, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE HICKMANChief Petty Officer · July 1, 1968
- JAMES CAUDILLLance Corporal · August 18, 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.