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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Francis Lytal.

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JAMES FRANCIS LYTAL

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

September 13, 1927 – March 10, 1967

Service record

James Francis Lytal, of Wanamassa, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 16E · Line 53

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Born
September 13, 1927
Home of record
Wanamassa, New Jersey (Monmouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1967
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

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What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Wanamassa

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.