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DAVID LEONARD JARVIS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 17, 1945 – January 2, 1968
Service recordDavid Leonard Jarvis, of Jamesville, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 19
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 Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- July 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Jamesville, New York (Onondaga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 19
- WILLIAM STEVE ILLMANPrivate First Class · January 2, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS JACOBUSWarrant Officer 1 · January 2, 1968
- HANS KLETINGERPrivate First Class · January 2, 1968
- JEFFRY ARTHUR LARSONCorporal · January 2, 1968
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.