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JAMES DALE GUFFEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 10, 1948 – March 6, 1968
Service recordJames Dale Guffey, of Midwest City, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Midwest City, Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 19
- MICHAEL DOUGLAS GRAYPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- JAMES ANDREW GRZEGOREKPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- JOHN LODA HAINESSergeant · March 6, 1968
- BLUCHER RAY HALLPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALVIN CARRPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 15
- CLINTON R CARPENTER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 16
- MELVIN B FENNPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 18
- DAVID JOHN LATRAILLESpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 24
- STEPHEN FRANK PALAZZOLAPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 29
- PHILLIP WAYNE PIGFORDSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 30
- GREGORY RANDALL SHAMBAUGHCorporal · Panel 43E, Line 34
- STANLEY ALBERT STYSPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 35
From Midwest City
- JAMES LARKIN EATMONPrivate First Class · April 22, 1966
- LAWRENCE STEPHEN ROBBINSLance Corporal · May 20, 1966
- ALLEN PERDA MILLERSergeant · December 19, 1966
- HAL JONES ROWLETTMaster Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- DONALD LEE BERNARDPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- JOHN KIRBY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · August 2, 1967
- GAILEN CHEEK CROSSLINPrivate First Class · September 19, 1967
- GEORGE RALPH CASTILLOCorporal · January 24, 1968
- RANDALL LEE MCELREATHLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- MICHAEL ROY FINERTYPrivate First Class · March 15, 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.