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JAMES BRUCE TASKER
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
September 20, 1946 – June 25, 1968
Service recordJames Bruce Tasker, of Troy, Ohio, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 33
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. Army
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Troy, Ohio (Miami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1968; ten of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 33
- TERRY HUDGINS BROOKSSpecialist Four · June 25, 1968
- JOSEPH GEORGE P CATOIR JRSpecialist Five · June 25, 1968
- IVY GALE CHILDRESSSpecialist Four · June 25, 1968
- GEORGE DOUGLAS DELLSpecialist Five · June 25, 1968
From Troy
- ROBERT DENNIS BROWNSpecialist Four · June 18, 1965
- GEORGE DONALD ANDERSONSpecialist Four · January 25, 1968
- DAVID ALLAN MAHANSergeant · September 13, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD LUTZ JRLieutenant · February 9, 1972
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.