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JAMES EDWARD MCPHERSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 6, 1947 – March 30, 1968
Service recordJames Edward McPherson, of Rockingham, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 15
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
- November 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Rockingham, North Carolina (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 47E, Line 15
- MARION HENRY NORMANFirst Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
- RAYMOND LOUIS PLUNKETTCorporal · March 30, 1968
- DONALD RAY RASHPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
- FRANCIS LOE SHAFER JRCaptain · March 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM PATRICK MURPHYSpecialist Four · Panel 47E, Line 14
From Rockingham
- THOMAS LEE LEWISSergeant First Class · March 23, 1964
- JIMMIE LOUIS ELLERBEPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- BENJAMIN TALLY DAWKINSSergeant · September 6, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS WADDELLStaff Sergeant · May 7, 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.