David A. Poley

Date of Birth: 05/19/1946
Neighborhood: Lafayette Hill
High School: Roxborough High School
Street: Lantern Avenue
Branch of Service: Army
Rank: WO
Date of Casualty: 03/09/1969
Province of Casualty: Quang Tri
Philadelphia Memorial Panel: Panel 24
Panel Row: 4

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David Poley loved to fly. The 22-year-old chief warrant officer had survived two helicopter crashes in Vietnam before receiving fatal injuries in a third crash on March 9, 1969. Poley bad been assigned to Company B of the 101st Assault Helicopter Company, 101st Airborne Division. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. Poley was a 1964 graduate of Roxborough High School and had attended Maryville (Tenn) College for two years before enlisting in the Army. He was survived by his parents and a sister.

Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial