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JAMES GORDON FARMER
Master Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 1, 1923 – October 9, 1967
Service recordJames Gordon Farmer, of Wallins, Kentucky, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 9, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 44. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 80
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
- Master Sergeant (MSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Born
- September 1, 1923
- Home of record
- Wallins, Kentucky (Harlan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1967
- Age
- 44
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 80
- FLOYD EUGENE COLLINS JRSpecialist Five · October 9, 1967
- WILLIS WAYNE EMERTONPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES ENGROFFPrivate · October 9, 1967
- RICHARD RAY IRWIN JRPrivate First Class · October 9, 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.