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JAMES HARLEN ALLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 29, 1952 – March 30, 1971
Service recordJames Harlen Allen, of Perryville, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 30, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 93
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- August 29, 1952
- Home of record
- Perryville, Arkansas (Perry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1971
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 93
- RICHARD LAURE STANSBARGERPrivate First Class · March 29, 1971
- ANDREW RICHARD STEWARD JRStaff Sergeant · March 29, 1971
- CRAWFORD HENRY TRAVERSergeant · March 29, 1971
- ALLEN EUGENE KINSMANSpecialist Four · March 30, 1971
From Perryville
- HAROLD GEORGE BENNETTStaff Sergeant · December 29, 1964
- MICHEAL EDWARD RICHARDSLance Corporal · July 31, 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.