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JAMES D BLANDEN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 29, 1931 – December 18, 1967
Service recordJames D Blanden, of Pickens, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 16
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- May 29, 1931
- Home of record
- Pickens, Mississippi (Holmes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1967; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 16
- MYRON FRANCIS SMITHFirst Lieutenant · December 17, 1967
- MARION BERNARD WEARINGCorporal · December 17, 1967
- GUADALUPE NATAL ZUNIGACorporal · December 17, 1967
- DOYLE LYNN BELLLance Corporal · December 18, 1967
From Pickens
- HERMAN MOORE JRSpecialist Four · June 22, 1970
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.