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JAMES CLELLON STORY
Private · U.S. Army
January 24, 1948 – June 13, 1969
Service recordJames Clellon Story, of Berwyn, Illinois, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 44
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 (PVT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Berwyn, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 22W, Line 44
- WAYNE GREGORY SCRIMSHAWCorporal · June 13, 1969
- CLARENCE MOODY STONER JRSergeant · June 13, 1969
- GARY LYNN TAYLORSergeant · June 13, 1969
- THOMAS HAROLD UTEGAARDSergeant · June 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID FRANK SCHLUTERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 43
From Berwyn
- CHARLES ALBERT SLAGERCorporal · October 18, 1966
- GEORGE THOMAS SUBERTPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- ROBERT RONALD SWANPrivate · September 1, 1967
- LEE BRIAN JARVISSergeant · September 7, 1967
- JOHN PETER JOHNSONSpecialist Four · January 5, 1968
- WILLIAM RASSANOSpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- GARY EDWARD BECKERSpecialist Four · May 26, 1968
- MICHAEL JOHN DONOVANSergeant · June 7, 1968
- PETER STEVEN TYRKAPrivate First Class · September 10, 1968
- NORMAN WILLIAM BARTELSCorporal · October 25, 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.