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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Everett Lane.

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JAMES EVERETT LANE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 6, 1933 – July 15, 1962

Service record

James Everett Lane, of Odessa, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1962, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 11

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Helicopter Repairer (Oh-58d) (67S)
Born
February 6, 1933
Home of record
Odessa, Texas (Ector County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1962
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1962. In July 1962, 7 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 11

From Odessa

All 45 names from Odessa →

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.