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DAVE MAYES JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 16, 1940 – November 13, 1965
Service recordDave Mayes JR, of Jonesville, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- January 16, 1940
- Home of record
- Jonesville, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 318 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 48
- HAROLD EUGENE WILKINSSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- SAMUEL EARL COKERPrivate · November 14, 1965
- RALPH A COPELANDSpecialist Four · November 14, 1965
- LAWRENCE LAVERN COVEYStaff Sergeant · November 14, 1965
From Jonesville
- HUBERT AARON ERWINPrivate First Class · December 27, 1966
- BUDROW BASS JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- JAMES HARDY WHITESergeant · September 12, 1968
- HOWARD LEE EARLYSergeant First Class · February 19, 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.