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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Byron Davis Orr.

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BYRON DAVIS ORR

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 26, 1943 – August 1, 1966

Service record

Byron Davis Orr, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 1, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 94

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
September 26, 1943
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 1, 1966
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date August 1, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 94

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.