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OLIVER EARL DURHAM
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
May 12, 1941 – November 27, 1968
Service recordOliver Earl Durham, of Honey Grove, Texas, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 27, 1968, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 73
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 First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Yeoman (YN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- May 12, 1941
- Home of record
- Honey Grove, Texas (Fannin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Giang Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 73
- JEROME DEE CHANDLERSergeant · November 27, 1968
- ALLEN EUGENE DUNEMANWarrant Officer 1 · November 27, 1968
- DENNIS JAMES FETTPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- DANIEL PORRAS FLORESCorporal · November 27, 1968
From Honey Grove
- JERRY DAN BYARSPetty Officer First Class · July 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.