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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 Jamison.

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DAVID JAMISON

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

March 21, 1945 – January 26, 1967

Service record

David Jamison, of Las Vegas, Nevada, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 26, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 80

Position of Panel 14E 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
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radio Telegraph Operator (2533)
Born
March 21, 1945
Home of record
Las Vegas, Nevada (Clark County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 26, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 80

From Las Vegas

All 56 names from Las Vegas →

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.