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JAMES EDWARD DUNCAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 11, 1940 – March 3, 1971
Service recordJames Edward Duncan, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1971, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 19
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 11, 1940
- Home of record
- Point Pleasant, West Virginia (Mason County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1971
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1971; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4W, Line 19
- MOSES HAYWOOD JRLance Corporal · March 3, 1971
- TOMMY RAY HENDERSONSpecialist Four · March 3, 1971
- RICKY LYNN JAMESPrivate First Class · March 3, 1971
- NEIL SCOTT KENDALLPrivate First Class · March 3, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ORIE JOHN DUBBELD JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 4W, Line 18
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.