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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 Lee Nott JR.

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BYRON LEE NOTT JR

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 9, 1944 – December 31, 1968

Service record

Byron Lee Nott JR, of Lawndale, California, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 31, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35W · Line 13

Position of Panel 35W 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
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
Born
March 9, 1944
Home of record
Lawndale, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 31, 1968
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 35W, Line 13

From Lawndale

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.