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JAMES EARL HESKETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 9, 1944 – January 7, 1968
Service recordJames Earl Heskett, of Hays, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 7, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 68
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 9, 1944
- Home of record
- Hays, Kansas (Ellis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 68
- JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUNLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- RAUL GRIMALDO GUTIERREZPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- DARREL WAYNE HEERENSergeant · January 7, 1968
- LOUIS HILLYERSergeant First Class · January 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MENDENHALLPrivate First Class · Panel 33E, Line 73
From Hays
- NORMAN ALEXIUS LEIKAMMajor · October 23, 1965
- GARY LEE BINDERConstructionman · October 13, 1967
- OLIS RAY RIGBYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- ROBERT LEE URBANPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- ARTHUR LEE KLAUSCorporal · February 8, 1969
- CHARLES WALTER MALONEMajor · October 5, 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.