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JOHN DAVID BABINSACK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 10, 1944 – June 22, 1968
Service recordJohn David Babinsack, of Freeport, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 22, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 17
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 10, 1944
- Home of record
- Freeport, Pennsylvania (Armstrong County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 22, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 17
- STEPHEN ARCHIE WALKERSergeant · June 21, 1968
- JERRY DELBERT ABEYTACorporal · June 22, 1968
- LE ROY FRED ARELLANOSergeant · June 22, 1968
- JOSE EMILI BENITEZ-RIVERAPrivate First Class · June 22, 1968
From Freeport
- DALE EDWARD SHULTZSpecialist Four · December 23, 1970
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.