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JAMES ALLEN KING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 27, 1949 – June 7, 1968
Service recordJames Allen King, of Palmdale, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 7, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 24
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
- Engineer Equipment Assistant (62A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Palmdale, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 24
- RODNEY EDWIN KINYONHospitalman · June 7, 1968
- RICHARD CARL KNACKFirst Lieutenant · June 7, 1968
- ANDY KNEVELBAARDLance Corporal · June 7, 1968
- JAMES FRANK KONECNYCorporal · June 7, 1968
From Palmdale
- MILTON KEITH MCNULTYFirst Lieutenant · July 31, 1965
- EUGENE WAYNE BURKHARTPrivate First Class · December 20, 1966
- CLAYTON BENTLEY LOWE JRSpecialist Four · June 1, 1967
- JOHN RALPH PAINTER JRLance Corporal · June 3, 1967
- MONTE RAY HARPERSpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
- MILTON SHAPIROPetty Officer First Class · February 27, 1969
- ROY GLENN ZUFELTSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
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.