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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dudley Wayne Mayo.

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DUDLEY WAYNE MAYO

Seaman · U.S. Navy

July 13, 1944 – May 10, 1965

Service record

Dudley Wayne Mayo, of Bellflower, California, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 10, 1965, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 113

Position of Panel 1E 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
July 13, 1944
Home of record
Bellflower, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 10, 1965
Age
20
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1965. In May 1965, 89 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 113

From Bellflower

All 19 names from Bellflower →

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.