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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Charles Delaplane.

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JAMES CHARLES DELAPLANE

Hospitalman · U.S. Navy

March 20, 1948 – April 17, 1968

Service record

James Charles Delaplane, of Camden, Indiana, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 50E · Line 27

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Hospitalman (HN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
March 20, 1948
Home of record
Camden, Indiana (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 17, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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54 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 50E, Line 27

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.