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JAMES ARNOLD WORKMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 30, 1945 – May 18, 1967
Service recordJames Arnold Workman, of Bloomington, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 38
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Indiana (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 28 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 38
- ROBERT ALLAN TURNERPetty Officer Second Class · May 18, 1967
- OLIVER ARGYLE WARESergeant First Class · May 18, 1967
- WILLIAM WELLSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WILSONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES E ARONHALT JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 20E, Line 20
- CHRISTOPHER WAYNE BEAVERSPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 21
- WILLIAM ALLEN BLACKWELLPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 21
- JAMES EDWARD BURCHSergeant · Panel 20E, Line 21
- JAMES T BURNSPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 21
- JOSEPH CALHOUNSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 22
- LOUIS WILSON COLEMAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 23
- ESTEBAN COLON-MOTASStaff Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 23
- PATRICK JAMES FLAVINPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 23
- ALLEN KENNETH DEARDENPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 24
- DUAINE KARL FISHERSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 25
- STEVE JOHN CHURCHILLPrivate · Panel 20E, Line 26
- JAMES LEE FOREMANSergeant · Panel 20E, Line 26
- HORACE ROSCOE GORESergeant · Panel 20E, Line 27
- WESLEY IRA GOSWICKSpecialist Five · Panel 20E, Line 27
- BRUCE ALAN GRANDSTAFFPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 28
- EDWARD CHARLES HULTQUISTPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 29
- CLIFFORD ALVIN JOHNSONPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 30
- DANNY EUGENE KINGSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 30
- JOE PAUL LARSENPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 31
- CHARLES EDWARD RANALLO JRSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 34
- CHARLES OSCAR REEDPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 34
- ALFRED WILLIAM ROBINSONSergeant · Panel 20E, Line 35
- ROBERT BENJAMIN SANZONESergeant · Panel 20E, Line 35
From Bloomington
- KENNETH LEE WALTERSSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- ALAN THOMAS READPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- EUGENE ALLEN PARISHPrivate First Class · October 15, 1967
- CHARLES PATRICK LIROTPrivate First Class · November 26, 1967
- WALTER MICHAEL SCOTTPrivate · February 11, 1968
- BOBBY WILSONSpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
- JERRY LABORN BOOKERSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- HARRY TILLMAN NIGGLELieutenant Colonel · February 5, 1969
- BRUCE WILLIAM SHAFFERWarrant Officer 1 · March 28, 1969
- ROGER WAYNE CUMMINGSPrivate First Class · April 20, 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.