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JAMES FREDERICK GODSEY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 15, 1942 – August 24, 1967
Service recordJames Frederick Godsey, of Humboldt, Kansas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 37
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 15, 1942
- Home of record
- Humboldt, Kansas (Allen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 25E, Line 37
- JOSEPH BERNILLE COMEAUXCorporal · August 24, 1967
- PAUL MICHAEL DALEYSpecialist Six · August 24, 1967
- JIMIE DALE DUTCHERPrivate First Class · August 24, 1967
- WILLIAM HOWARD GOEDEKERPrivate First Class · August 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- STERLING AIDEN WALLFirst Lieutenant · Panel 25E, Line 40
From Humboldt
- EDUARDO JIMENEZPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
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.