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JAMES GILBERT DALTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 1, 1950 – January 12, 1970
Service recordJames Gilbert Dalton, of Sawyer, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 28
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- February 1, 1950
- Home of record
- Sawyer, Oklahoma (Choctaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1970; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 28
- JOHN COOKE BREWTONLieutenant (junior grade) · January 11, 1970
- RICHARD BRUCE SPENCECorporal · January 11, 1970
- EDWARD ALLEN BISCHOFFPrivate First Class · January 12, 1970
- JIMMY LEE CHAMBLISSSpecialist Four · January 12, 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.