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JAMES D HUNT
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
December 1, 1936 – October 13, 1968
Service recordJames D Hunt, of Missoula, Montana, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on October 13, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 59
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 52
- Born
- December 1, 1936
- Home of record
- Missoula, Montana (Missoula County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 13, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1968. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 52”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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
Also on Panel 41W, Line 59
- FREDERICK RAYMOND HORRIDGEPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
- PERRY OWEN JACOBSPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
- PIERCE MALLORY KIMBALLSpecialist Four · October 13, 1968
- DAVID LEE LOCKARDSpecialist Four · October 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- QUINLAN ROBERTS ORELLCaptain · Panel 41W, Line 60
From Missoula
- WILLIAM LOUIS CYRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- JACOB FRANCIS STEPANCaptain · March 10, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HAVRANEKLance Corporal · June 11, 1967
- DONALD ALEXANDER LEHUTALance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- DOUGLAS LAWRENCE FRIEDSergeant · September 25, 1967
- ANTHONY BLAKE CADWELLPrivate · October 17, 1967
- GEORGE PERCY KENDALL JRGunnery Sergeant · February 4, 1968
- ALAN LEE BOYERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- LIONEL RUSSELL CRASELance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- ROBERT HUGH CARROLLMajor · May 12, 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.