The Wall › Panel 45W › Pennsylvania › James Dale Peoples
JAMES DALE PEOPLES
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 29, 1947 – September 2, 1968
Service recordJames Dale Peoples, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 27
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Altoona, Pennsylvania (Blair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 27
- HERBERT GEORGE LUCASSecond Lieutenant · September 2, 1968
- WINSTON ELVETTE MARCANOSergeant · September 2, 1968
- THOMAS HENRY MOONCorporal · September 2, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD OSBORNSpecialist Four · September 2, 1968
From Altoona
- JOSEPH WILLIAM SCHUSTERCorporal · June 1, 1966
- ALFRED JAMES KIBLERLance Corporal · October 6, 1966
- DENNIS M SPAHNSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- WILLIAM JOEL RICKMANPrivate First Class · April 3, 1967
- EDWARD PHILIP SZEYLLERLieutenant · April 4, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD CAREYLance Corporal · April 21, 1967
- ROBERT CARL DAMBECKMaster Sergeant · July 7, 1967
- NICHOLAS CHARLES BIANCONICorporal · July 24, 1967
- GEAN PRESTON CLAPPERChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- SHELDON D SCHULTZChief Warrant Officer 3 · January 5, 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.