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JAMES HAMPTON EDGE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 23, 1929 – March 5, 1966
Service recordJames Hampton Edge, of Greensboro, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 115
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 23, 1929
- Home of record
- Greensboro, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1966
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 5E, Line 115
- LELAND FRANCIS DIXONCorporal · March 5, 1966
- HENRY JAMES DOSTERCorporal · March 5, 1966
- CHARLES LEE EDWARDSPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- THOMAS WILLIAM EDWARDSPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
Same unit, same day
- LLOYD CALVERIA WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 5E, Line 126
From Greensboro
- GLENN CHARLES DYERFirst Lieutenant · October 26, 1964
- THOMAS MONROE CROWPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- ALVIN C SLIGHPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- GENTRY GRAHAMSpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- ROGER WARDELL JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1966
- RONALD CRAIG LOVETTPrivate First Class · June 12, 1966
- JAMES SHREVE HALLChief Master Sergeant · July 29, 1966
- CHESTER DECATUR FEWELLPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
- BILLY WAYNE FLYNNSecond Lieutenant · January 23, 1967
- CURTIS OWENS MATIERSpecialist Four · May 23, 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.