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JAMES KAHILILAUIN LINDSEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 16, 1938 – April 4, 1967
Service recordJames Kahililauin Lindsey, of Naalehu, Hawaii, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 99
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 16, 1938
- Home of record
- Naalehu, Hawaii (Hawaii County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 99
- CHARLEY CHESTER KIBELPrivate First Class · April 4, 1967
- SIDNEY GEORGE KREISHERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1967
- RONALD FRANCIS LAKECorporal · April 4, 1967
- DAVID EARL MARTINEnsign · April 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW CARL BRUCHERSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 97
- HARRY LEE DAVISFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 98
- JIMMY JOE SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 100
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.