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JAMES HENRY ADAMS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 4, 1948 – April 9, 1969
Service recordJames Henry Adams, of Whitehouse, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 43
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP
- Born
- September 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Whitehouse, Kentucky (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 43
- JIMMY ROGER WESTMORELANDPrivate First Class · April 8, 1969
- STEPHEN DAVID WILKINSONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1969
- LEON WILSONCorporal · April 8, 1969
- JAMES GEORGE BUNCH JRSergeant · April 9, 1969
From Whitehouse
- JAMES RONNIE MOLLETTESergeant · April 29, 1966
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.