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JAMES ALFRED LUCKEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 12, 1948 – January 25, 1969
Service recordJames Alfred Luckey, of Ft Myers, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 77
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Ft Myers, Florida (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 77
- ROBERT MALCOLM LANGSLOWHospitalman · January 25, 1969
- FERNANDO LEONARD LOZANOSpecialist Four · January 25, 1969
- JOSEPH LYNN MEADEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1969
- RONALD DAVID MELTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD ROY BELLWOODSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 73
- DENNIS ALLEN HOLZHEIMERSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 76
- JAMES PATRICK RIGGINSSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 79
- JAY DEE RUMSEYCorporal · Panel 34W, Line 79
- ROGER LEE VICKERSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 34W, Line 80
- CHARLES MINOR WOODALL JRSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 81
From Ft Myers
- ERNEST M SCHULTZ IIISpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- CHRISTOPHER J DEAN JRPrivate First Class · May 11, 1966
- ROY DONALD HUTTINGSergeant · September 25, 1966
- GEORGE DANIEL THEISENPrivate First Class · December 13, 1966
- ROBERT FULTON HELVESTONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1967
- THOMAS LEE MCGEEPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- WILLIE JAMES MOOREPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- CLAYTON MARQUI SPAINHOWERPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- CULLIE WILSON BRYANTSpecialist Four · January 13, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE WHITTENSergeant · May 8, 1968
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.