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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Duncan Albert Warwick.

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DUNCAN ALBERT WARWICK

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 28, 1947 – July 21, 1969

Service record

Duncan Albert Warwick, of Leesville, Louisiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 21, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 32

Position of Panel 20W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
82 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 28, 1947
Home of record
Leesville, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
July 21, 1969
Age
22
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From Leesville

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.