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JOHN BERNARD DURST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 11, 1939 – May 31, 1968
Service recordJohn Bernard Durst, of Romney, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 31, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 8
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 11, 1939
- Home of record
- Romney, West Virginia (Hampshire County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 31, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62W, Line 8
- ANTHONY LEE BENNETTSecond Lieutenant · May 31, 1968
- JOHN ALLEN DENNISPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- ERIC VOUGHN DICKSONLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
- RALPH FERGUSONLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS HERRONPrivate First Class · Panel 62W, Line 10
From Romney
- DENNIS ELWOOD MCDONALDPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- REX MARCEL SHERMANCorporal · November 19, 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.