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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Allen Skinner.

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JAMES ALLEN SKINNER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 20, 1946 – August 15, 1966

Service record

James Allen Skinner, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 10

Position of Panel 10E 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
Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 20, 1946
Home of record
Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 15, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Montgomery

All 50 names from Montgomery →

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.