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JAMES KENNETH HUGHES
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 28, 1936 – March 16, 1966
Service recordJames Kenneth Hughes, of Lawrenceville, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 28, 1936
- Home of record
- Lawrenceville, Illinois (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1966
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 14
- JOHN HENRY BEAUCHAMP JRCorporal · March 16, 1966
- MARION C BROWNSergeant · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT PAUL GIPSONSpecialist Four · March 16, 1966
- WILLIAM O GOSSETTPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CURTIS CARL NICKERSONSergeant First Class · Panel 6E, Line 15
- JERRY L ZEVENBERGENPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 16
From Lawrenceville
- LARRY DALE CARRELLSergeant · October 28, 1967
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.