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JAMES FRANKLIN LEE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 20, 1943 – April 3, 1970
Service recordJames Franklin Lee, of Gallion, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 89
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 20, 1943
- Home of record
- Gallion, Alabama (Hale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1970
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1970; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 89
- CARL JOHN HELRINGSpecialist Four · April 3, 1970
- JOSEPH DARRYL JOHNSFireman · April 3, 1970
- WILLIAM ANGUS MILLERCorporal · April 3, 1970
- RONALD NEAL PARSONSSpecialist Four · April 3, 1970
Same unit, same day
- RONALD NEAL PARSONSSpecialist Four · Panel 12W, Line 89
From Gallion
- JAMES ARTHUR BISHOPSpecialist Four · April 7, 1969
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.