GREEN BERETS Widder, David John Wick

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Widder ​

• FORENAME

David John Wick ​

• UNIT

5 SF Group (Det C-1)​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

0-86934​

• DATE OF DEATH

24th March 1965 ​

• AGE

27 ​

• GRAVESITE

Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 37 Site 3391​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Sheboygan,Wisconsin​

born 31.10.1937 Sheboygan,Wisconsin​

son of John and Betty Widder,Wisconsin​

husband of Hannah C. Widder,3271 20th Avenue,N.E.,Hickory,North Carolina (2 children)​

graduated North High School 1955​

10 years service​

graduated The Citadel 1955-59​

graduated 101st Airborne Division Jump School,Fort Campbell,Kentucky 1.7.1959​

Okinawa 1960 (101 Airborne Division ?)​

SF 1963​

5 SF Group 1964-65​

awards Soldiers Medal,Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster,Air Medal with multiple oak leaf clusters,Army Commendation Medal​

KIA when shot on board Caribou aircraft on approach to A-106,Ba To,Quang Ngai Province,South Vietnam ​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 01E Line 97 ​

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Captain Widder was shot and killed by small arms fire during a reconnaissance mission, flying as an observer out of Danang AB aboard a light single engine aircraft. (Most likely a USAF FAC "Birddog" aircraft). There were no other casualties.​

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