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JAMES BROOKS HEFFRON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 1, 1946 – August 31, 1966
Service recordJames Brooks Heffron, of Spotswood, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 31, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Spotswood, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 58
- LARRY DEAN TAYLORLance Corporal · August 30, 1966
- ARTHUR EDWIN COMSTOCK JRPrivate First Class · August 31, 1966
- ROBERT HENRY LERNERPrivate First Class · August 31, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD METOYERLance Corporal · August 31, 1966
From Spotswood
- OTTO WILLIAM BAUMANN JRPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- GARY RICHARD BUTTENBAUMPrivate First Class · May 9, 1967
- DENNIS CRANECorporal · June 15, 1968
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.