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JAMES HERVEY SHANNON JR
Sergeant Major · U.S. Army
June 13, 1929 – November 6, 1966
Service recordJames Hervey Shannon JR, of Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army. He died on November 6, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 35
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
- Sergeant Major (SGM)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 13, 1929
- Home of record
- Bogue Chitto, Mississippi (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1966
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 35
- LAWRENCE EUGENE FOWLERPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- CHARLES EDMUND PETERSPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- ROBERT GRANT WILSONCorporal · November 6, 1966
- WILLIAM S MORGAN IISpecialist Four · November 7, 1966
From Bogue Chitto
- BILLY JOE WILSONSpecialist Four · November 20, 1965
- JOEL FULLERPrivate First Class · November 3, 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.