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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold James Anable.

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HAROLD JAMES ANABLE

Seaman Recruit · U.S. Navy

June 12, 1925 – April 19, 1967

Service record

Harold James Anable, of Massena, New York, served as a Seaman Recruit in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 19, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 47

Position of Panel 18E 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman Recruit (SR)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
June 12, 1925
Home of record
Massena, New York (St Lawrence County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 19, 1967
Age
41
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 47

From Massena

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.