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JAMES EDWARD MAXWELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 26, 1949 – February 6, 1972
Service recordJames Edward Maxwell, of Nesbit, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1972, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 105
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Power Generation Equipment Repairer (52D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Nesbit, Mississippi (De Soto County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1972
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1972; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In February 1972, 46 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 105
- GEORGE HENRY TOUSLEY IIICaptain · February 8, 1972
- ROBERT EDWARD LUTZ JRLieutenant · February 9, 1972
- JAMES LESTER ENNISSpecialist Four · February 10, 1972
- CARL DAVID JOHNSONPrivate First Class · February 11, 1972
From Nesbit
- DEMPSEY CHALMERS JRLance Corporal · April 18, 1968
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.