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DAN NINKEY JAMES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1948 – December 29, 1968
Service recordDan Ninkey James, of Riceboro, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 4
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Riceboro, Georgia (Liberty County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 4
- EUGENE FELTS JRPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE FISHERPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY HAUPT IIILance Corporal · December 29, 1968
- CARL RODMAN HINKLESpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD EDWARD BRADFORDCorporal · Panel 35W, Line 2
- JAMES IRVING CUTLERSergeant · Panel 35W, Line 3
- JOSEPH EDWARD STRAWBRIDGESpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 3
- WILLIAM SYLVESTER DEBOERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 35W, Line 7
- FARL DUANE WAGNERSergeant · Panel 35W, Line 7
From Riceboro
- JOHN GIBSONPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
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.