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JAMES BYRD BRANDON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 2, 1949 – February 3, 1968
Service recordJames Byrd Brandon, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 4
- RUSSELL DAVID BRYANT JRPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- LANGDON GATES BURWELLCorporal · February 3, 1968
- LARRY GEORGE CANNONSpecialist Four · February 3, 1968
- MICHAEL BERNARD CERVERASpecialist Four · February 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDGAR MALONEPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 10
- JACK ALLAN PEACOCKSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 11
- PAUL ANTHONY PRZELOMSKISpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 12
- WILLIAM C QUEBODEAUX JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 12
- ZACK OSCAR ROWLANDPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 13
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.