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JAMES DAVID TRAVIS JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 6, 1945 – September 11, 1967
Service recordJames David Travis JR, of Concord, Tennessee, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 11, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 58
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
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Born
- May 6, 1945
- Home of record
- Concord, Tennessee (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 58
- DOW E STEPPLance Corporal · September 11, 1967
- EMERY CAPERS SULLIVAN IIICorporal · September 11, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES TOMLINSONLance Corporal · September 11, 1967
- ROBERT FRANCIS BIGELOWPrivate First Class · September 12, 1967
From Concord
- JIMMY ALLEN MARCUMSpecialist Four · February 4, 1966
- HAROLD GENE CURTISCorporal · October 20, 1969
- ROBERT HARRISON LANE JRSergeant · April 1, 1970
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.