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JAMES CLAIBORNE WILSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 31, 1945 – May 11, 1969
Service recordJames Claiborne Wilson, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1969, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 58
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
- Finance Specialist (73C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 31, 1945
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 58
- RONNIE GENE WEESELance Corporal · May 11, 1969
- VICTOR MANUEL YANEZSergeant · May 11, 1969
- RICHARD LEE ZODYPrivate First Class · May 11, 1969
- GERALD RICHARD ACTONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID HENRY SHIFLETTPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 55
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 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.