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DAVID TIESON GRAHAM JR
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 2, 1944 – July 11, 1965
Service recordDavid Tieson Graham JR, of Princeton, New Jersey, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 11, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 93
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Freight Operations Clerk (3111)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Princeton, New Jersey (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 11, 1965
- Age
- 21
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1965. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 93
- GEORGE LEONARD SHOOK JRPrivate First Class · September 22, 1965
- DAVID ALLEN MORGANStaff Sergeant · September 23, 1965
- EUGENE LEONARD ARANDAPrivate First Class · September 24, 1965
- GEOFFREY HOLMES OSBORNLieutenant (junior grade) · September 24, 1965
From Princeton
- WILLIAM STANLEY SMOYERSecond Lieutenant · July 28, 1968
- WILLIE EARL GRANGERSergeant · August 3, 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.