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JAMES CLAUDE DURHAM JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 31, 1948 – September 16, 1968
Service recordJames Claude Durham JR, of Lincoln Park, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Lincoln Park, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 4
- PERRY DIBERARDINOCorporal · September 16, 1968
- JOHN MARTIN DONOHUEPrivate First Class · September 16, 1968
- JAMES RAYMOND ENGLERTSergeant · September 16, 1968
- KENNETH ROY FARDENCorporal · September 16, 1968
From Lincoln Park
- GERALD ANTHONY KOSAKOWSKISpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES WILLIAM POWERSPrivate First Class · February 6, 1966
- ELI WAYNE NICHOLSPrivate First Class · February 14, 1966
- RICHARD DENNIS KAMINSKIPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- RONALD LEE BECKETTCorporal · April 27, 1967
- GARY WAYNE KLINELance Corporal · June 3, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN NELSONHospitalman · November 14, 1967
- VAUGHN THOMAS ONEILPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- JOHN FOLDVARY JRCorporal · March 17, 1968
- THOMAS JOHNSON BRADFORDCorporal · May 2, 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.