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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Arthur Wall.

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JAMES ARTHUR WALL

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

June 1, 1950 – April 19, 1971

Service record

James Arthur Wall, of Atlanta, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 19, 1971, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 135 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 4W · Line 135

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Ordnanceman (AO)
Born
June 1, 1950
Home of record
Atlanta, Texas (Cass County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 19, 1971
Age
20
Province
Kien Giang
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

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What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1971; he was the only one lost in Kien Giang Province that day. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 4W, Line 135

From Atlanta

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.