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JAMES HAROLD CALLIS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 19, 1938 – August 5, 1967
Service recordJames Harold Callis, of Deltaville, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 5, 1967, in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 80
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 19, 1938
- Home of record
- Deltaville, Virginia (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 5, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Vinh Binh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date August 5, 1967; he was the only one lost in Vinh Binh Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 80
- FORREST EARL CAINPetty Officer Third Class · August 5, 1967
- LARRY TOM CHANDLERSergeant · August 5, 1967
- ROBERT VERNON DURBINCorporal · August 5, 1967
- MICHAEL LEE ENDICOTTPrivate First Class · August 5, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT VERNON DURBINCorporal · Panel 24E, Line 80
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.