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DAVID ELMER MORGAN
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 23, 1945 – January 20, 1969
Service recordDavid Elmer Morgan, of Candler, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 20, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 43
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
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 23, 1945
- Home of record
- Candler, North Carolina (Buncombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 20, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 34W, Line 43
- EDWARD HAROLD MANNSergeant First Class · January 20, 1969
- LARRY ALLEN MARTINPrivate First Class · January 20, 1969
- TERRY LYNN MARTINCorporal · January 20, 1969
- ALFRED MAURO QUIROZCorporal · January 20, 1969
From Candler
- OTIS CLEVELAND MORGANMajor · July 28, 1970
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.