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JAMES EVART BLAAUW
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 11, 1947 – March 22, 1968
Service recordJames Evart Blaauw, of Grayling, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Grayling, Michigan (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1968; 16 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.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 54
- PAUL WILLIAM BUSHFirst Lieutenant · March 22, 1968
- PHILLIP J CAYFORD JRSpecialist Four · March 22, 1968
- CHARLES E DANIELSPrivate First Class · March 22, 1968
- CARLOS RAY DAVISPrivate First Class · March 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WALTER HAROLD ANSLOWSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 53
- GARY LANE BARNUMPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 53
- FRED C H FRAPPIEA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 55
- BILL WAYNE GRANTSpecialist Five · Panel 45E, Line 56
- DONALD EDWARD GREENSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 56
- FREDERICK Y HOLJESSecond Lieutenant · Panel 45E, Line 57
- BENJAMIN ALLEN JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 57
- MANFRED WALTER KRAUSESpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 57
- THEODORE VALENTI MCINNISCorporal · Panel 45E, Line 59
- THOMAS JOHN PTAKSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 59
- CHARLES RICHARD PYLESpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 60
- THOMAS JOHN STURGALSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 60
- C W RICHARD WILLIAMSSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 61
From Grayling
- ROBERT LAWRENCE FAIRBOTHAMSpecialist Four · September 5, 1968
- MICHAEL JAMES HATFIELDWarrant Officer 1 · March 22, 1970
- JAMES ERWIN RUSSSpecialist Four · May 23, 1970
- CARL WILHELM BORCHERSChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 6, 1971
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.