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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Henry Duncan.

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JAMES HENRY DUNCAN

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 29, 1933 – February 7, 1967

Service record

James Henry Duncan, of Pensacola, Florida, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 4

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
October 29, 1933
Home of record
Pensacola, Florida (Escambia County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 7, 1967
Age
33
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Pensacola

All 74 names from Pensacola →

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.