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JAMES ALAN COPELAND
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 30, 1950 – November 8, 1968
Service recordJames Alan Copeland, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 36
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 30, 1950
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 39W, Line 36
- PETER PAUL BLASKO JRPetty Officer Third Class · November 8, 1968
- GARY RAY COOPERCorporal · November 8, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANCIS DESMONDPrivate First Class · November 8, 1968
- JAMES ALLEN HARDMANSergeant · November 8, 1968
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 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.