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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 James Albert Hall.

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JAMES ALBERT HALL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 15, 1946 – July 9, 1965

Service record

James Albert Hall, of Lakewood, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 33

Position of Panel 2E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 15, 1946
Home of record
Lakewood, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1965. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 33

From Lakewood

All 13 names from Lakewood →

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.