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JAMES DOIL RADER
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 8, 1945 – December 6, 1967
Service recordJames Doil Rader, of Yorktown, Virginia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 6, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 53
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.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Yorktown, Virginia (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 53
- JOSEPH LEE REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES ROMANSHEKCorporal · December 6, 1967
- FREDERICK WRIGHT SANDERSLance Corporal · December 6, 1967
- PATRICK T SASSEPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
From Yorktown
- DOUGLAS WARREN HOGGELance Corporal · June 5, 1966
- ROBERT EUGENE MOSSMajor · March 1, 1968
- MELVIN DOUGLAS RASHChief Master Sergeant · May 22, 1968
- RODNEY GLENN OXENDINECorporal · August 12, 1969
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.