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JAMES ARTHUR BISHOP
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 10, 1948 – April 7, 1969
Service recordJames Arthur Bishop, of Gallion, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 29
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Gallion, Alabama (Hale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1969; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 29
- KENNETH ROBERT BIRDSergeant · April 7, 1969
- ROBERT MCLAIN COCHRAN JRSpecialist Four · April 7, 1969
- FLOYD ANDREW DEALSergeant · April 7, 1969
- JAMES MICHAEL DERDACorporal · April 7, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY JOHN FANFASergeant · Panel 27W, Line 30
- CHARLES LEE HATHORN JRSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 31
- STANLEY EUGENE MCCREARYPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 32
- RONALD ALLEN SEHESTEDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27W, Line 34
- WAYNE YEARWOOD STEWARTPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 34
- DARRELL EDWARD WALDENSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 35
From Gallion
- JAMES FRANKLIN LEEStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1970
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.