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JAMES D HUNTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 20, 1949 – October 29, 1968
Service recordJames D Hunter, of Portland, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 54
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 First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Portland, Tennessee (Sumner County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 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
Also on Panel 40W, Line 54
- CHARLES EDWARD HAZLIPSpecialist Four · October 29, 1968
- JOSEPH EMERSON HEATHSpecialist Four · October 29, 1968
- HERBERT NICHOLAS JOHNSONGunnery Sergeant · October 29, 1968
- GEORGE MICHAEL PRICEPrivate First Class · October 29, 1968
From Portland
- RAYMOND EARL WRIGHTCorporal · July 16, 1968
- ARTHUR EMMITT LIKENSSpecialist Four · February 29, 1972
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.