Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: 3rd platoon
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 23-Aug-1945
Hometown: Fall River Mills, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 24-Mar-1967
Date of casualty: 24-Mar-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died while missing. Unknown. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
David Carson Cunningham was passenger in armored personnel carrier on combat operation when vehicle hit a hostile mine.
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Fall River Cemetery, Fall River Mills, California, USA
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