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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lavall Durr.

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LAVALL DURR

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

March 27, 1942 – April 12, 1966

Service record

Lavall Durr, of Castroville, California, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 12, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 106

Position of Panel 6E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
D CO 1 BN 1 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
March 27, 1942
Home of record
Castroville, California (Monterey County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 12, 1966
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date April 12, 1966; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “D CO 1 BN 1 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 106

Same unit, same day

From Castroville

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.