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JAMES CARL PAYNE
Major · U.S. Army
July 27, 1933 – February 2, 1968
Service recordJames Carl Payne, of Marked Tree, Arkansas, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 81
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 27, 1933
- Home of record
- Marked Tree, Arkansas (Poinsett County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36E, Line 81
- RAYMOND JOHN MICHALOWSKILance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- CHARLES THOMAS PARKERSergeant · February 2, 1968
- KENNETH JAMES PATTONStaff Sergeant · February 2, 1968
- DONALD DEAN PERKINS JRFirst Lieutenant · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENDRICK KING KELLEY IIICaptain · Panel 36E, Line 76
- MICHAEL DEAN STOTLERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 87
From Marked Tree
- TEDDY GENE TALLEYSpecialist Four · May 26, 1967
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.