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O D SCOTT
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 6, 1922 – November 16, 1967
Service recordO D Scott, of Seaside, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 45. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 5
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1922
- Home of record
- Seaside, California (Monterey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 16, 1967
- Age
- 45
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 5
- RICHARD WAYNE MIDDLETONPrivate First Class · October 27, 1967
- GREGORY CORNELIUS QUINNPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- LEWIS LEONARD SLOANPrivate · November 16, 1967
- JAMES EMMETT STONEPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- WILLIAM VELILLAPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
From Seaside
- KURT CASEY MCDONALDColonel · December 31, 1964
- ALFRED HENRY COMBS JRSergeant First Class · June 25, 1965
- CARLITO LADORES DORSEYPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JAMES ALBERT JACKSONStaff Sergeant · May 21, 1967
- LASZLO HOLOVITSStaff Sergeant · September 23, 1967
- WILMER WATSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- RAYMOND JESUS PALACIOSpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- CECIL ODELL BUNDAGESergeant First Class · September 26, 1968
- WILLIAM CHAPIN GRIFFITHSpecialist Four · December 15, 1968
- JOHN CALVIN SHERMANStaff Sergeant · May 2, 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.