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JAMES BRIAN LAWRENCE MAKIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 16, 1940 – March 16, 1968
Service recordJames Brian Lawrence Makin, of Charleston, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- 0v-1 Airplane Repairman (67H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 16, 1940
- Home of record
- Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 3
- BILLIE ORR KEANStaff Sergeant · March 16, 1968
- EDWARD L KRAUSMANSergeant · March 16, 1968
- BRUCE WAYNE LOISELLEPrivate First Class · March 16, 1968
- WELDON BERNARD MERRILLSergeant First Class · March 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WAYNE ELSWICKSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 67
From Charleston
- CLARENCE LARRY MOORERCaptain · December 12, 1963
- THEODORE RICHARDSONSpecialist Four · October 2, 1965
- CHARLES GALE DUSINGChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- EARL CLAYTON GRAHAMSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- HAROLD T EDMONDSON JRCorporal · January 30, 1966
- JAMES BRADLEYSergeant · February 5, 1966
- BURTON ALEXANDER BLANTONCaptain · March 30, 1966
- WALTER H ANDERSONPrivate First Class · April 16, 1966
- RANDOLPH CLINTON SCOTTPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- HAROLD MACK JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
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.