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JAMES EARNEST BATTEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 18, 1946 – August 1, 1967
Service recordJames Earnest Batten, of Smithfield, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 1, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 58
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Smithfield, Virginia (Isle Of Wight County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 1, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date August 1, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 58
- PAUL EDWARD WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · July 31, 1967
- JESSE WAYEN ALLENSergeant · August 1, 1967
- JAMES FRANCIS BURKE JREnsign · August 1, 1967
- ROBERT JOSEPH DAMICOPrivate First Class · August 1, 1967
From Smithfield
- ARTHUR ISIAH THOMASCorporal · November 1, 1967
- FRED LAFAY PETTIGREW IIICorporal · February 11, 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.