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JAMES CLYDE WISKUR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 11, 1946 – April 29, 1966
Service recordJames Clyde Wiskur, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 29, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 13
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Winthrop Harbor, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1966; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 13
- JULIAN B WILLOUGHBYStaff Sergeant · April 29, 1966
- CARL MERLIN GEBHART JRCorporal · April 30, 1966
- HOWARD ROBERT HYSELLSpecialist Four · April 30, 1966
- ROGER WARDELL JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1966
From Winthrop Harbor
- MICHAEL DONN SCHATZLEYPrivate First Class · March 24, 1966
- LEONARD JAMES CARTERPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- DONNIS GLEN WILLISPrivate First Class · March 26, 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.