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JAMES GREGORY CONDON III
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 13, 1942 – June 21, 1966
Service recordJames Gregory Condon III, of Whitman, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 13, 1942
- Home of record
- Whitman, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 71
- MILLARD LEROY WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- JOSEPH HENRY COOPER JRSergeant · June 21, 1966
- WILLIE FRANCIS JRSpecialist Four · June 21, 1966
- MICHAEL ROBERT HALLPrivate First Class · June 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH HENRY COOPER JRSergeant · Panel 8E, Line 71
- MICHAEL ROBERT HALLPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 71
- BRUCE MARK JOHNSONSpecialist Five · Panel 8E, Line 72
- BENJAMIN F LIDDELL IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 72
- WAYNE HERMAN NELSONSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 72
- FREDERICK LEE RYANPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 72
- FREDRICK HAZER VESTERSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 73
From Whitman
- ROBERT EVERETT BROOKSLance Corporal · April 19, 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.