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JAMES JAY HEALEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 27, 1944 – November 3, 1966
Service recordJames Jay Healey, of Northbrook, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 3, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 13
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Northbrook, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 3, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1966; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 13
- RICCARDO BURTON DICKERSONPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- JAMES WILLIAM EISNERPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- ROBERT L FOWBLE JRSpecialist Four · November 3, 1966
- JOEL FULLERPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
From Northbrook
- DONALD EDWARD KOELPERCaptain · February 16, 1964
- DONALD JOSEPH RIONPetty Officer Third Class · December 10, 1966
- ROJELIO BOCANEGRALance Corporal · June 4, 1967
- RAND RUSSELL MERKERWarrant Officer 1 · March 26, 1969
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.