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NEVITT DIEALL DAVIS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 7, 1940 – September 17, 1967
Service recordNevitt Dieall Davis, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 17, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 82
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 7, 1940
- Home of record
- New Orleans, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 82
- RAYMOND EARL CHAMBERSSergeant · September 17, 1967
- MERRELL J CLAYBURNSpecialist Four · September 17, 1967
- ERVIN LEE CONDREAYPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
- THOMAS JAMES DANIELSSpecialist Four · September 17, 1967
- GUADALUPE PEREZSpecialist Four · September 17, 1967
From New Orleans
- GEORGE EDWARD FLYNN IIICaptain · September 23, 1964
- HARRY EMILUS ROWLEYSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- EPHRON WALLACE JRSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
- ROBERT ANGELO SOLORZANOLance Corporal · November 3, 1965
- CARL STEPHEN DANIELSPrivate First Class · November 4, 1965
- HERMAN LOUIS JEFFERSON JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- EARL DUBOIS AULLSecond Lieutenant · November 17, 1965
- LAVINE JOHN BANKSSergeant · November 17, 1965
- JOHNNY WILLIAM BOUINGTONPrivate First Class · November 25, 1965
- RONALD FRANCIS RODMajor · December 4, 1965
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.