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DAVID WAYNE PIPPIN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 11, 1945 – February 14, 1968
Service recordDavid Wayne Pippin, of Stanford, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 14, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 38
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- January 11, 1945
- Home of record
- Stanford, Illinois (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 14, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 14, 1968; two 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 “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 38
- JOHN WILLIAM PYLEStaff Sergeant · February 14, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT REESESecond Lieutenant · February 14, 1968
- BARRY LANE RIGSBYPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- GERALD WILLIAM ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · February 14, 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.