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JAMES DAMION VALOV
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 8, 1942 – April 26, 1969
Service recordJames Damion Valov, of Downey, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (Nbc) Specialist (54E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- June 8, 1942
- Home of record
- Downey, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1969; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 59
- ALFONSO AUGUSTUS WEBBLance Corporal · April 26, 1969
- ALBERT DELGADO AUSTIN JRSpecialist Five · April 27, 1969
- DARYLE WAYNE BATTSergeant First Class · April 27, 1969
- ARNOLD REX BRAYSpecialist Four · April 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES WILLIAM CHANDLERCaptain · Panel 26W, Line 54
- ROBERT JOSEPH GOEDDEPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 54
- JAMES EDWARD JOHNSON JRPrivate · Panel 26W, Line 54
- LARRY DOUGLAS PARRPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 55
- CHARLES ROBERT SINKPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 57
- LARRY EUGENE SMITHPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 57
From Downey
- ROBERT RONALD BOHLERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- FRED ALBERT TRYON JRPrivate First Class · December 18, 1965
- CLIFFORD LEROY WHIPPLELance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- WALTER L WONNACOTTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- JON LAIRD MESSERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- MICHAEL CHEROFFSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
- DURAND GARFIELD LIGGETTPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- WAYNE CLARK HARMONCorporal · May 19, 1967
- CHARLES RUSSELL LAUERCorporal · June 18, 1967
- JAMES CURTIS HOUGHTONSpecialist Four · December 16, 1967
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.