The Wall › Panel 38E › North Carolina › James Earl Parker
JAMES EARL PARKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 8, 1946 – February 8, 1968
Service recordJames Earl Parker, of Oak City, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 36
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Oak City, North Carolina (Martin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 8, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
114 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1968; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38E, Line 36
- RONALD LEE PEMBLETONPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
- LE ROY ALVIN PETERSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- AQUILLA ANTHONY PHILLIPSSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- JOHN CHRISTOPHER PONDOFFPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- AMOS HAYES BOUTWELLPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 21
- ALBERTO CARRASQUILLO-DENTONSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 22
- FRANKLIN CLOVISPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 23
- RALPH ALBERT DAHMSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 24
- LANNY EARL HALESpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 29
- JOHN IRVINE HASELBAUERPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 29
- JAMES LEONARD LOPPSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 32
- DAVID LEE MCKINNEYSergeant · Panel 38E, Line 35
- JOHN RICHARD POSOPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 37
- WALTER RAYMOND PRATTPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 37
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.