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JAMES DANIEL TYNER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 18, 1935 – November 13, 1966
Service recordJames Daniel Tyner, of Indianola, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 18, 1935
- Home of record
- Indianola, Mississippi (Sunflower County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1966
- Age
- 30
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 69
- TRACY STEPHEN TENHOFFLance Corporal · November 13, 1966
- JUAN TORRESLance Corporal · November 13, 1966
- DONALD CHARLES VAUGHANSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- RALPH O WATTSSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST E LAYAOU JRMajor · Panel 12E, Line 67
From Indianola
- DELL GENE HAMPTONPrivate First Class · June 23, 1966
- DOCK JEFFERSON PINIONSpecialist Four · November 22, 1966
- CECIL EVERETT MCCLAINPrivate First Class · March 27, 1970
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.