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JAMES IRVIN MCCARTHY JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 18, 1949 – November 29, 1969
Service recordJames Irvin McCarthy JR, of Seattle, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 7
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Seattle, Washington (King County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 7
- MICHAEL ANDREW OKEEFE JRPrivate First Class · November 29, 1969
- HENRY BENNETT PARSONS IIICorporal · November 29, 1969
- CHARLES VARENCE PENNCaptain · November 29, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL PIASECKIPrivate First Class · November 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT STEVEN CLEMENTSPrivate First Class · Panel 15W, Line 3
From Seattle
- RICHARD WEBB GEYERMajor · July 6, 1963
- HARRY ALLEN WALLINGSergeant · June 19, 1964
- WILLIAM ROBERT HAMLINSpecialist Five · December 8, 1964
- BERNARD WAYNE DIBBERTLieutenant Colonel · June 1, 1965
- MOON WAI LOCKSpecialist Four · June 28, 1965
- WALTER JOHN ZIMMERPrivate First Class · August 23, 1965
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BARBERLieutenant · September 18, 1965
- STEPHEN GOULD RICHARDSONLieutenant (junior grade) · November 30, 1965
- JACOB DRUMMOND LOGANLieutenant (junior grade) · December 2, 1965
- DANIEL JOHN GUILMETPrivate First Class · December 18, 1965
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.