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DAVID LEVANT FELT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 5, 1946 – August 17, 1965
Service recordDavid Levant Felt, of Sacramento, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 17, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 53
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
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- April 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Sacramento, California (Sacramento County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 17, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1965; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 53
- NORMAN EDWARD SNODGRASSPrivate First Class · August 15, 1965
- MICHAEL ALLEN LYLESPrivate First Class · August 16, 1965
- JAMES THOMAS CLARKPrivate · August 17, 1965
- ROWLAND JOSEPH ADAMOLICorporal · August 18, 1965
From Sacramento
- IRVING ALBERT SELFSergeant · May 19, 1964
- LEONARD PAUL HUDSONFirst Lieutenant · November 19, 1964
- CRAIG LOUIS HAGENSergeant · June 10, 1965
- RICHARD GRIFFITH PHILBINPrivate First Class · February 2, 1966
- PHILLIP ANTHONY LOTTAPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GILSONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- RICHARD LEE LAWSLieutenant · April 3, 1966
- ROBERT LEE FOSTERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- GERALD C HUNSBARGER IIIPrivate First Class · June 2, 1966
- EDWARD WAYNE BUTLERPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
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.