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AUBURN DALE MCCOMB
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 3, 1935 – May 14, 1967
Service recordAuburn Dale McComb, of Gainesville, Florida, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 14, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 120
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- May 3, 1935
- Home of record
- Gainesville, Florida (Alachua County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1967
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 120
- ERVIN LOVELLPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- JOHNNIE LEE MCDANIELPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- GEORGE WESLEY MONTGOMERYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- DALE LESTER OTTOLance Corporal · May 14, 1967
From Gainesville
- VERNON THOMAS CARTER JRLance Corporal · December 10, 1965
- NOAH MORRIS KRAFTFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1966
- JEROME CORDELL WINTERSCaptain · July 25, 1966
- LORENZO COLUMBUS MAULDENPrivate First Class · July 26, 1966
- FREDDIE LEE KLECKLEYPrivate First Class · August 10, 1966
- LINDY EDWARD HENRYStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- JAMES MILTON JEFFERSONLieutenant Colonel · May 12, 1967
- WESLEY IRA GOSWICKSpecialist Five · May 18, 1967
- JAMES MIKEL RUNNELSAirman · July 29, 1967
- MARCUS CLAUDE JONESLance Corporal · August 28, 1967
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.