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ALVIN MARION SHIFFLETT JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 4, 1946 – October 26, 1966
Service recordAlvin Marion Shifflett JR, of Russellville, Kentucky, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 26, 1966, in North Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 115
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS ORISKANY CVA 34
- Born
- May 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Russellville, Kentucky (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 26, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USS ORISKANY CVA 34”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 115
- GERALD WILLIAM SIEBELieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- JAMES ANDREW SMITHLieutenant Commander · October 26, 1966
- THOMAS EDMUND SPITZERLieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- HOWARD DAVID STRAUSSLance Corporal · October 26, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JAMES BRIAN HUDISLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 11E, Line 111
From Russellville
- JAMES ERWIN PRICEPrivate First Class · March 30, 1967
- BOBBY RAY MEFFORDLance Corporal · August 6, 1967
- ALBERT RUSSELL SANFORDCorporal · March 30, 1968
- LAVAUGHN ELLIOTTSergeant · July 7, 1968
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.