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JAMES EDWARD SULLIVAN
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
November 11, 1942 – October 29, 1972
Service recordJames Edward Sullivan, of Hull, Massachusetts, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on October 29, 1972, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 85
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- November 11, 1942
- Home of record
- Hull, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 29, 1972
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1972. In October 1972, 65 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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 1W, Line 85
- DEXTER BUSH FLORENCEFirst Lieutenant · October 29, 1972
- FRED OBERDING JRSpecialist Four · October 29, 1972
- JAMES DAVID BROWNSpecialist Four · October 31, 1972
- RAYMOND LEE GOODCHILDSpecialist Four · October 31, 1972
From Hull
- JOSEPH PATRICK DUNNCommander · February 14, 1968
- JAMES CHARLES DAIGLEStaff Sergeant · May 14, 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.