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JAMES CECIL STARNES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
March 27, 1939 – November 29, 1970
Service recordJames Cecil Starnes, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 29, 1970, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 96
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- March 27, 1939
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1970
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1970; 29 of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Read the history
Also on Panel 6W, Line 96
- JAMES EDWARD STUBBLEFIELDSergeant · November 29, 1970
- RONNIE CARL TESCHENDORFSergeant · November 29, 1970
- HARRY ALLEN WATSONStaff Sergeant · November 29, 1970
- JAMES BRUCE YOUNGAirman First Class · November 29, 1970
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 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.