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JOHN DAVID STRIPLING III
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 31, 1947 – April 25, 1967
Service recordJohn David Stripling III, of Bellbrook, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 89
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Traffic Management Coordinator (71N)
- Born
- January 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Bellbrook, Ohio (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 89
- CHARLES DAVID AUSTINMajor · April 24, 1967
- JOHN GERALD CURTINPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
- LEONARD DEAN THOMPSONSpecialist Four · April 25, 1967
- JOSHUA ABRAHAM ATKINS IIIPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
From Bellbrook
- ROBERT BYREL CANNONPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- DOUGLAS EUGENE FOSTERCorporal · May 16, 1968
- FARIS E HOLLANDSergeant First Class · October 31, 1968
- ANTHONY ROBERT WERNERSpecialist Four · May 8, 1969
- ERICH CARL ENGELHARDColonel · June 22, 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.