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JAMES BRUCE COLLINS
Corporal · U.S. Army
January 22, 1948 – September 25, 1968
Service recordJames Bruce Collins, of Walla Walla, Washington, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 25, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Walla Walla, Washington (Walla Walla County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 10
- RONALD LEON DELVERDECorporal · September 25, 1968
- LARRY GENE DROWNPrivate First Class · September 25, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM EASTONFirst Lieutenant · September 25, 1968
- ERNEST LEROY ROWESergeant · September 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS KNUTE BLAINPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 9
- LARRY GENE DROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 10
- JAMES HENRY MORGANPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 13
- EVERETT HAROLD SMITH JRSpecialist Four · Panel 42W, Line 14
From Walla Walla
- LOWELL EUGENE SCHULTZPrivate First Class · November 10, 1966
- ROBERT GERALD NALLYHospitalman · March 17, 1967
- DONALD WAYNE HARTSpecialist Four · July 31, 1967
- JAMES A NEISESSCaptain · October 2, 1967
- DAVID LE ROY MCRAEStaff Sergeant · August 31, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE BRUTSCHERCorporal · December 28, 1968
- LARRY JAMES HANLEYMajor · November 4, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL SMITHCorporal · November 27, 1969
- RONALD JOE FULTONChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 31, 1970
- WILLIAM MORRIS WALMSLEYPrivate First Class · April 4, 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.