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JAMES CLIFTON LALONE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 16, 1943 – March 16, 1967
Service recordJames Clifton Lalone, of Hazel Park, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 95
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Radio Teletype Operator (05C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B BTRY 2 BN 35 ARTY
- Born
- December 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Hazel Park, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 95
- GLENN DAVID MCELROYLieutenant Colonel · March 15, 1966
- JULIAN ALLAN MCKEELance Corporal · March 16, 1967
- CLARANCE ALLEN MOONEYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- DANNY EUGENE NICKLOWPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
From Hazel Park
- MAX EUGENE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- STEVE SAMUEL GALLIS JRPrivate First Class · March 28, 1967
- RICHARD LAWRENCE WOLFEPrivate First Class · May 1, 1967
- GARY MARTIN KILLIANPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- BARRY ALAN HUNTERPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- DENNIS MICHAEL STEVENSCorporal · December 11, 1967
- MICHAEL A GRIEVESergeant · January 31, 1968
- JOHN MITCHELL MICHALSKISpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- GARY CARL SEYMOURPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- HAROLD MICHAEL DAVIS JRCorporal · January 18, 1969
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.