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DERRELL LOIAL PONDER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 10, 1950 – October 29, 1970
Service recordDerrell Loial Ponder, of Plant City, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1970, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember (16F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- December 10, 1950
- Home of record
- Plant City, Florida (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1970; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 27
- ALFRED RUSSELL MATTHEWSPrivate First Class · October 29, 1970
- JAMES RUSSELL MAYESPrivate First Class · October 29, 1970
- GARY ROBERT MCHUGHPrivate First Class · October 29, 1970
- MICHAEL ALBERT MICKOLance Corporal · October 29, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JAMES RUSSELL MAYESPrivate First Class · Panel 6W, Line 27
From Plant City
- HENRY VAN DEMPSPrivate First Class · August 22, 1966
- DEREX WILLIAMS JRCaptain · August 23, 1967
- WILLIAM EDGAR JERKINSAirman First Class · September 4, 1967
- EMORY STEPHEN CANNONPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- CARLOS LARUE KNIGHTSergeant · June 12, 1968
- RONALD KEITH GROOMSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JAMES ARNOLD LISENBYCorporal · August 13, 1968
- DONNIE EDWARD WATSONCorporal · September 23, 1968
- DAVID T MOORESergeant · January 11, 1969
- ROBERT DALE DIXONStaff Sergeant · June 3, 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.