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JAMES ARTHUR CHRISTY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 27, 1938 – August 17, 1966
Service recordJames Arthur Christy, of Bellaire, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 27, 1938
- Home of record
- Bellaire, Ohio (Belmont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 17, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 14
- JOSEPH WILLIAM BRANDColonel · August 17, 1966
- BASIL PLANE BRASSStaff Sergeant · August 17, 1966
- OSCAR ROLAND CARRIEREPrivate First Class · August 17, 1966
- RONALD LEE CARTERPrivate First Class · August 17, 1966
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE CARTERPrivate First Class · Panel 10E, Line 14
From Bellaire
- GARY PAT POLLEYStaff Sergeant · October 19, 1967
- JAMES DAVID SERENAPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
- FRANCIS MARION MONROESergeant · November 22, 1969
- ANDREW MICHAEL SIMKOLieutenant Colonel · April 5, 1970
- GEORGE ROBERT KELLEYCorporal · July 22, 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.