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JAMES EDWIN MCPIKE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 7, 1944 – July 19, 1969
Service recordJames Edwin McPike, of Lakewood, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 22
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 7, 1944
- Home of record
- Lakewood, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 22
- JAMES EDWARD NULTON IISpecialist Five · July 19, 1969
- ALFONSO OLMOSSpecialist Four · July 19, 1969
- THOMAS ELDEN ROSESpecialist Four · July 19, 1969
- MICHAEL SCOTTPrivate First Class · July 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TERRY LYNN GILLIAMCorporal · Panel 20W, Line 19
From Lakewood
- JAMES ALBERT HALLPrivate First Class · July 9, 1965
- RANDOLPH SCOTT HUTCHINSONPrivate First Class · December 30, 1966
- JOHN MARK ZEHNDERSpecialist Four · September 28, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES PASTVALance Corporal · December 6, 1967
- MICHEAL ALLEN MIKITISGunnery Sergeant · January 27, 1968
- GERALD JAMES WINCHCaptain · March 15, 1968
- ALEXANDER TSIROSCorporal · April 30, 1968
- DAVID KEITH CHAHOCFirst Lieutenant · September 27, 1968
- CHARLES ROBERT COOKCorporal · December 27, 1968
- TERRENCE PATRICK KILBANECorporal · February 6, 1969
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.