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JAMES ALVIN PACE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 13, 1948 – August 19, 1968
Service recordJames Alvin Pace, of Clewiston, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 2
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Clewiston, Florida (Hendry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 2
- DENNIS LEE MCCORMICKPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- EDWARD AUSTIN MCKENZIEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- DEAN OLIVER NEWSOMELance Corporal · August 19, 1968
- JACK POOLA PASHANOSpecialist Four · August 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY CECIL BAIZEPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 51
- CHARLIE PERKINS JRCorporal · Panel 47W, Line 3
From Clewiston
- ALLAN JAMES WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- RALPH LEE FORDSergeant · November 5, 1967
- ARTHUR JAMES ANDERSONSergeant · February 23, 1969
- LEO FRED JOHNSONSergeant First Class · October 11, 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.