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JAMES ERLAN TEAGUE
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
July 23, 1943 – November 19, 1967
Service recordJames Erlan Teague, of Harrisburg, Arkansas, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on November 19, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 34
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Born
- July 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Harrisburg, Arkansas (Poinsett County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 19, 1967
- 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
77 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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 30E, Line 34
- DUNCAN PADGETT SMYLYMajor · November 19, 1967
- JAMES RONALD SPELLERPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- HARRY EDWARD STEPHENSSpecialist Four · November 19, 1967
- RICHARD W THOMPSONFirst Lieutenant · November 19, 1967
From Harrisburg
- WILLIAM A CLIFTONSpecialist Five · June 26, 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.