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JAMES EDMUND PEAY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 28, 1945 – January 7, 1968
Service recordJames Edmund Peay, of Franklin, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 7, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 73
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Franklin, Tennessee (Williamson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 73
- BOBBY RAY MCKINNONPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MENDENHALLPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- JAMES J MORASpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
- ROBERT NIELSENCorporal · January 7, 1968
From Franklin
- JAMES BENNETT CONWAYMajor · April 12, 1966
- ROBERT DOUGLAS MARLINPrivate First Class · October 15, 1966
- JOHN WILLIE WOODS JRSpecialist Four · October 30, 1966
- RICHARD LEE CAROTHERSPrivate First Class · December 17, 1966
- LARRY GRAHAM BUFORDCorporal · November 30, 1967
- WILLIAM HARRISON GOINSSergeant · February 26, 1968
- CHARLES HERBERT HARDISONPrivate · September 5, 1968
- DANNY GALE MARTINSpecialist Five · December 1, 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.