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DAVID LOUIS MERRILL
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
February 15, 1945 – November 6, 1968
Service recordDavid Louis Merrill, of South Bend, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 6, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 29
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
- February 15, 1945
- Home of record
- South Bend, Indiana (St Joseph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 29
- JOSEPH MICHAEL PIGNATOLance Corporal · November 6, 1968
- RUSSELL J POWELLSergeant · November 6, 1968
- ALLAN LEE SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · November 6, 1968
- MARVIN ISAAC SIDERSMajor · November 6, 1968
From South Bend
- JOHN RUSSELL HILLSMajor · February 14, 1966
- RONALD LEE RUNKELLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- ALLEN L HIGGINBOTHANSpecialist Four · April 2, 1966
- EVEANS JERRY STULTSSergeant · September 2, 1966
- KENNETH EUGENE KASAStaff Sergeant · April 19, 1967
- LARRY FLOYD JANKOWSKIPrivate · May 8, 1967
- RUSSELL PERRY MILLERPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- LONNIE MICHAEL HOLMESSergeant · June 15, 1967
- LEE CHARL HITCHCOCKCaptain · September 10, 1967
- MICHAEL JENNINGS HALLSecond Lieutenant · January 8, 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.