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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold James Warmsley.

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HAROLD JAMES WARMSLEY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 10, 1944 – May 27, 1969

Service record

Harold James Warmsley, of Dallas, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 4

Position of Panel 23W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
October 10, 1944
Home of record
Dallas, Texas (Dallas County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 27, 1969
Age
24
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1969; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Dallas

All 261 names from Dallas →

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.