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ARTHUR D SIMMONS
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
July 22, 1940 – March 16, 1970
Service recordArthur D Simmons, of Marshall, Texas, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 16, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 10
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 22, 1940
- Home of record
- Marshall, Texas (Harrison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1970
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1970; 28 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 10
- WILLIAM JOHN RISSEChief Petty Officer · March 16, 1970
- JOHN STEVE SCHAEFERPetty Officer Second Class · March 16, 1970
- BARRY MARTIN SEARBYPetty Officer Second Class · March 16, 1970
- JEAN PIERRE SOUZONLieutenant (junior grade) · March 16, 1970
Same unit, same day
- DONALD WAYNE WILSONPetty Officer First Class · Panel 12W, Line 11
From Marshall
- FREDDY DEAN DODSONPrivate First Class · June 30, 1964
- JAMES WIMBERLEY LEWISColonel · April 7, 1965
- JOE HERBERT EPPSPrivate First Class · January 14, 1967
- RICHARD A WORTHPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- JAMES GRADY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- MARION EDWARD WAUGHMajor · May 5, 1968
- SAM JONESLance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- HERBERT WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- PATRICK LYNN BLAIRSergeant · March 21, 1969
- CHARLES EDWARD MANNINGCorporal · May 12, 1969
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.