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JAMES AUBREY BLAKLEY
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
December 15, 1946 – June 27, 1967
Service recordJames Aubrey Blakley, of Ripley, Tennessee, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 67
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Ripley, Tennessee (Lauderdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 67
- KYLE SMIDDYSergeant · June 26, 1967
- AARON BERNARD SPALDINGLance Corporal · June 26, 1967
- DALE CHARLES ALLENSecond Lieutenant · June 27, 1967
- LAWRENCE EDWARD BACHSpecialist Four · June 27, 1967
From Ripley
- RAYMOND WILKIE RICHARDSONSpecialist Four · February 14, 1967
- CARL WAYNE SCALLIONSSpecialist Four · May 22, 1967
- CHARLES CALVIN BURNSLance Corporal · June 1, 1967
- MICHAEL EARL KOONCEPrivate · September 14, 1969
- JAMES ERLEY MCGARRITY JRLance Corporal · September 17, 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.