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JAMES EDGAR MALONE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 3, 1946 – February 3, 1968
Service recordJames Edgar Malone, of Inglewood, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 10
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Inglewood, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. 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 37E, Line 10
- HOI TIN LAUPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- EDWARD MANOWSKIPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- JAMES KEVIN MCCANNLance Corporal · February 3, 1968
- STEPHEN BROOKS MURDENFirst Lieutenant · February 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES BYRD BRANDONSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 4
- JACK ALLAN PEACOCKSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 11
- PAUL ANTHONY PRZELOMSKISpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 12
- WILLIAM C QUEBODEAUX JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 12
- ZACK OSCAR ROWLANDPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 13
From Inglewood
- LARRY VERNON LAKEPrivate First Class · October 6, 1965
- ROY LOUIS RYSE JRPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- DONALD ZOBOBLISHLance Corporal · March 1, 1966
- DONALD RAY SMITHPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- WILLIAM EDWARD COSSA JRSpecialist Four · May 31, 1967
- ROBERT FENTON STEIMERSpecialist Four · June 14, 1967
- WILLIAM BYRON WEIKAL JRTechnical Sergeant · June 17, 1967
- ROBERT LEE CENTERSeaman · July 11, 1967
- HAROLD BAUCHIEROLance Corporal · August 20, 1967
- DONALD LYNN MCALISTERCorporal · September 4, 1967
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.