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JAMES KEITH OXLEY
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
April 3, 1946 – November 30, 1967
Service recordJames Keith Oxley, of Bradford, Pennsylvania, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 15
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- April 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Bradford, Pennsylvania (Mckean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 15
- NELSON WILLIAM MCKENNAPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH MCNABBPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JEROME EDWIN OLMSTEDFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- HEDWIG DIANE ORLOWSKIFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
From Bradford
- MICHAEL RAY CUNEENLance Corporal · April 5, 1966
- RONALD LEE HERBSTRITTPrivate First Class · June 25, 1966
- JAMES VINCENT RALSTONSergeant · January 19, 1967
- LAWRENCE GARY GRASSISpecialist Four · February 5, 1968
- BRUCE ALAN COBBPrivate First Class · March 25, 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.