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HARVEY JAMES DOUGLAS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 31, 1946 – January 18, 1969
Service recordHarvey James Douglas, of East Sebago, Maine, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 18, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 32
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
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 31, 1946
- Home of record
- East Sebago, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 32
- JACK RAY DANCEPrivate First Class · January 18, 1969
- HAROLD MICHAEL DAVIS JRCorporal · January 18, 1969
- EUGENE LEWIS DOTSONPrivate First Class · January 18, 1969
- JAMES FREDRICK EISMANSpecialist Four · January 18, 1969
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.