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EVERAL FLOYD AVEY
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 2, 1943 – May 26, 1968
Service recordEveral Floyd Avey, of Mountain View, Arkansas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 67W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 67W · Line 8
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
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO NMCB 133 3 NC BDE
- Born
- May 2, 1943
- Home of record
- Mountain View, Arkansas (Stone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 67W, Line 8
- WILLIAM DEAN WILSONCorporal · May 25, 1968
- BERNARD FRANCIS YARBINITZPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD ZESKEPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- OTIS LEE ALLENPrivate First Class · May 26, 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.