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JAMES EDGAR DUNKIN JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 10, 1931 – November 2, 1968
Service recordJames Edgar Dunkin JR, of Coachella, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 7
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Watercraft Engineer (61C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 10, 1931
- Home of record
- Coachella, California (Riverside County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 7
- TERRY LEE ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · November 2, 1968
- REFUGIO CANALESSpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- RALPH R CARPENTER JRSpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- EUGENE THOMAS DALY JRSergeant · November 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROY WALDO MILLER JRSpecialist Five · Panel 39W, Line 9
From Coachella
- EDDIE PAUL AUSTINCorporal · April 21, 1967
- EDWARD ANGIANO ESCOBARSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- FRANCISCO PENA DELGADOCorporal · May 7, 1970
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.