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JAMES EARL SKIPPER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 3, 1948 – February 3, 1969
Service recordJames Earl Skipper, of Conyers, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 51
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)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- October 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Conyers, Georgia (Rockdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 33W, Line 51
- JOHN ROBERT POFFCorporal · February 3, 1969
- JON SIDNEY RASMUSSENPrivate First Class · February 3, 1969
- JOHN RAYMOND REBITSSergeant · February 3, 1969
- ROBERT EUGENE SHERLOCKLance Corporal · February 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GORDON DWIGHT GARDNERSergeant · Panel 33W, Line 48
From Conyers
- DANNY DEAN MCGEELance Corporal · January 23, 1967
- THOMAS RONNIE RANGE JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE HAMLINSergeant · February 5, 1969
- DONALD WAYNE GARRETTPrivate First Class · May 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.