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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Dalton Parker.

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JAMES DALTON PARKER

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

May 4, 1938 – November 18, 1963

Service record

James Dalton Parker, of Malin, Oregon, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1963, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 1E · Line 34

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
May 4, 1938
Home of record
Malin, Oregon (Klamath County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 18, 1963
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1963. In November 1963, 7 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 1E, Line 34

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.