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JAMES FRED TURNEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 16, 1947 – May 14, 1968
Service recordJames Fred Turney, of Pinnacle, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 17
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Pinnacle, North Carolina (Stokes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 60E, Line 17
- MARTIN ROY NIEMILance Corporal · May 14, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT SMITHPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY ZEIGLERPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- WILLIE EDWARD ALSTONSergeant · May 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VESA JUHANI ALAKULPPICaptain · Panel 60E, Line 7
- ROBERT JOHN GROTHAUS IIPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 11
- FRANCIS EUGENE JORDANPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 12
- JAMES JOSEPH KLINESpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 13
- ROBERT DENNIS MURPHYPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 15
- JAMES ROBERT RINGELSpecialist Four · Panel 60E, Line 16
- WILLIAM HENRY ZEIGLERPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 17
From Pinnacle
- CURTIS JOHNSON MANRINGCorporal · August 26, 1970
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.