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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 David Bashaw.

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DAVID BASHAW

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

March 11, 1948 – June 7, 1966

Service record

David Bashaw, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 15

Position of Panel 8E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
F CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3MARDIV
Born
March 11, 1948
Home of record
Elizabeth, New Jersey (Union County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 7, 1966
Age
18
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 15

From Elizabeth

All 27 names from Elizabeth →

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.