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JAMES ALLEN BURTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 27, 1948 – June 11, 1968
Service recordJames Allen Burton, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 22
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Stroke
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 22
- WAYNE WILLIAM BERNHARDTPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- GLADSTON CALLWOODSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- LARRY DEXTER CARLISLEChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 11, 1968
- ROBERT SHEEHAN CASTELOTPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
From Pascagoula
- GIOVANNINO TUMMINIASpecialist Five · March 30, 1966
- EUGENE JEHLEN MAJUREFirst Lieutenant · August 18, 1966
- GEORGE CURTIS SIGALASLance Corporal · December 22, 1967
- HERMAN PAUL MAGEEPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- THOMAS DOUGLAS HARDYPrivate · October 22, 1968
- GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARDPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- JOHN ELMORE WELLSSergeant · June 4, 1970
- HOWARD OTTO WARBINGTONStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
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.