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JAMES A HUFF
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 17, 1948 – August 4, 1968
Service recordJames A Huff, of Viola, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 4, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Viola, Arkansas (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date August 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 10
- MIGUEL A NEGRON-RODRIGUEZSergeant · August 4, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT SCHMUDECorporal · August 4, 1968
- RONALD BURTON TAYLORCorporal · August 4, 1968
- GEORGE CREIGHTON VASSEYSergeant First Class · August 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ALLEN WARRENPrivate First Class · Panel 49W, Line 11
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.