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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Herbert Workman.

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JAMES HERBERT WORKMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 17, 1948 – June 30, 1969

Service record

James Herbert Workman, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 40

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 716 MP BN USARV
Born
September 17, 1948
Home of record
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (Beaver County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 30, 1969
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1969; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 40

From Beaver Falls

All 13 names from Beaver Falls →

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.