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J C STORY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 23, 1943 – January 8, 1968
Service recordJ C Story, of Bessemer, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 93
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wire Systems Installer (36C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 44 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE
- Born
- August 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Bessemer, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 44 SIG BN 1 SIG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 93
- RALPH O RODRIGUEZSergeant First Class · January 8, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN RUMLEYCorporal · January 8, 1968
- LOUIS L SCHAUTTEET JRLance Corporal · January 8, 1968
- FREDERICK LLOYD SCHRAMCaptain · January 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD EMERSON HANSON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 33E, Line 86
From Bessemer
- ROY MARVIN HITT JRSergeant · November 4, 1965
- CORDELL SPENCERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- MACK ARTHUR WAREPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY LAGRANDStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OAKESPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ELIJAH DANIEL JRStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1966
- MATTHEW WAREStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1966
- THOMAS C EVANSStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1967
- WILLIAM HORACE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1967
- LOUIS COLSTON JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 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.