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JAMES EDWARD HUTTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 12, 1947 – March 11, 1967
Service recordJames Edward Hutton, of Bluffs, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 60
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
- Diver (00B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Bluffs, Illinois (Scott County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1967; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 60
- FRANCIS BRYANT CONCANNONPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- JAMES MICHAEL HOLSWORTHPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- JAMES TOSHI KAJIWARASergeant · March 11, 1967
- JOSEPH JOHN KARINS JRMajor · March 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD BROWN HEYDTMajor · Panel 16E, Line 59
- HAYWARD CARL SPENCERSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 65
From Bluffs
- PHILLIP HENRY KILVERSergeant · October 25, 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.