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JAMES CHARLES OSHEA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 28, 1946 – March 31, 1969
Service recordJames Charles Oshea, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 99
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Council Bluffs, Iowa (Pottawattamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 99
- MELVIN HUBBARD CONNER JRLance Corporal · March 31, 1969
- ARTHUR PAUL KONEVALPrivate First Class · March 31, 1969
- EDWARD BARTHOLOMEW LAMASergeant · March 31, 1969
- PETER MARY NEELance Corporal · March 31, 1969
From Council Bluffs
- MELVIN JOSEPH KILLIANColonel · September 30, 1965
- PHILLIP HARRY GREGOPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- LEONARD LLOYD MCQUINN JRPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- PAUL FRANK WIDTFELDT JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- DENNIS RAY JENSENPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHTSpecialist Five · March 25, 1967
- CLIFFORD DALE NELSONMajor · July 25, 1967
- LOUIS NEWTON COOLEY JRLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN IVESPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- KENNETH CARL BAXTERLance Corporal · May 1, 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.