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HAROLD VERNON DAYRINGER JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 15, 1942 – August 24, 1965
Service recordHarold Vernon Dayringer JR, of Benson, North Carolina, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 84
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Map Compiler (1431)
- Born
- October 15, 1942
- Home of record
- Benson, North Carolina (Johnston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Incident
- Airplane Crash Hong Kong To Danang Vs
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in South Vietnam while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The record gives the date and branch of service but not the exact place.
Read the history
Also on Panel 2E, Line 84
- DAVID DUANE CASEPrivate First Class · September 16, 1965
- WILLIAM JAMES HENRYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1965
- KENNETH RAY IRELANPetty Officer Second Class · September 16, 1965
- SAM IVEYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1965
- DONALD HOWARD MEEKSpecialist Five · September 16, 1965
From Benson
- RONALD WAYNE LEELance Corporal · October 6, 1966
- HENRY LORANZE MORGANSergeant · December 29, 1967
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.