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JAMES HARRISON HORTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 24, 1948 – March 11, 1969
Service recordJames Harrison Horton, of Holden, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Holden, West Virginia (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 10
- JOSEPH REFUGIO HERMOSILLOSpecialist Four · March 11, 1969
- SAMUEL LOYD HOLDERPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
- ARCHIE HUBERT IYUA JRSergeant · March 11, 1969
- JOHN RICHARD JACKSONSergeant · March 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PERRY LEONARD BOZEMANPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 4
- BENNIE JOE GRAHAMPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 8
- WALTER LEE MOORESpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 12
- DEAN RUSSELL ORNFirst Lieutenant · Panel 29W, Line 13
- ROBIN WILLIAM RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 13
From Holden
- LESTER EUGENE MAYNARDPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
- JOHN BOWEN JRSergeant First Class · September 21, 1970
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.