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JAMES FRANKLIN AKINS
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 5, 1943 – May 19, 1967
Service recordJames Franklin Akins, of Smartt, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 19, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 42
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Smartt, Tennessee (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1967; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 42
- REYNALDO SALINE FERNANDEZCorporal · May 19, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS FULFORDSergeant · May 19, 1967
- WALTER THOMAS GEIGERPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- JUAN ANTONIO GONZALEZPrivate First Class · May 19, 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.