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JAMES FRANK PORTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 15, 1946 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJames Frank Porter, of Warrington, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 31
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Practical Nurse (91C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Warrington, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi 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 36E, Line 31
- MICHAEL ANTHONY MANGIOLARDOPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- MICHAEL ALAN POGUEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JOHN PATRICK PREZIOSISergeant · January 31, 1968
- DONALD M RADICSSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY ALAN BANGLOSPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 85
- HENRY WILBURN HARTMANSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 13
From Warrington
- EDWARD ALFRED WELLINGSPrivate First Class · September 21, 1966
- WILLIAM JOHN IGOEPrivate First Class · July 11, 1967
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.