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JAMES JOHN LISTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 13, 1947 – March 21, 1969
Service recordJames John Lister, of Burley, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 102
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)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Burley, Idaho (Cassia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 102
- EUGENE PIZZINO IISergeant · March 16, 1969
- EARL LLOYD LEWISLance Corporal · March 21, 1969
- DALE DENNIS LINGLEAirman Apprentice · March 21, 1969
- RICARDO LOPEZCorporal · March 21, 1969
- ALAN FREDERICK MARSCHALLSergeant · March 21, 1969
From Burley
- DALE K LARSONSergeant · November 12, 1968
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.