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JAMES ESSARY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 26, 1946 – January 17, 1967
Service recordJames Essary, of Niangua, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Niangua, Missouri (Webster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1967; eight of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 43
- HERBERT HAROLD CROWDERSpecialist Four · January 17, 1967
- DANIEL TERRY CUMMINGSPrivate First Class · January 17, 1967
- HERSCHEL LEE EPPS JRPrivate First Class · January 17, 1967
- EDWARD RALPH GLENN JRSpecialist Four · January 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD RALPH GLENN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 43
- YVON ANDRE HEBERTCorporal · Panel 14E, Line 44
- DALE CLARENCE SCHUMMERSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 46
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.