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JAMES ALLEN COREY
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 2, 1947 – March 2, 1968
Service recordJames Allen Corey, of Kimberly, Wisconsin, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 30
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ammunition Technician (2311)
- Born
- October 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Kimberly, Wisconsin (Outagamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
100 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 30
- NICHOLAS JOSEPH CUTINHASpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- DAVID K DEMATTEISPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- BRUCE ELIOT JRSpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- NORMAN JOSEPH ERBLANDSergeant · March 2, 1968
From Kimberly
- REX ALFRED LADUKEPrivate First Class · June 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.