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JAMES KENNETH PALMER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 26, 1946 – December 28, 1967
Service recordJames Kenneth Palmer, of Medina, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 89
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
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 120 AVN CO 165 EVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Medina, Tennessee (Gibson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 89
- GENE RAY PHIPPSSergeant · December 28, 1967
- JOHNNY LEE ROBINSONCorporal · December 28, 1967
- RONALD JOHN STRECKERTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1967
- ERNESTO TARANGOPrivate First Class · December 28, 1967
From Medina
- RONALD LEE CARTERPrivate First Class · August 17, 1966
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.