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JAMES LAFON TARTE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 2, 1945 – August 24, 1968
Service recordJames Lafon Tarte, of Kingsport, Tennessee, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 24, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 9
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 2, 1945
- Home of record
- Kingsport, Tennessee (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1968; seven of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 9
- GEORGE W SMITH JRSpecialist Four · August 24, 1968
- CARMELO SOSA-HIRALDOPrivate First Class · August 24, 1968
- RAYMOND PAUL SPINLERSpecialist Four · August 24, 1968
- ROBERT RICHARD TOLPACorporal · August 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HERMAN DAVID ROBINSONCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 1
- GARY BREWSTER KILGORESpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 4
- LUPE P OCHOASpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 6
- GEORGE W SMITH JRSpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 9
- CARMELO SOSA-HIRALDOPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 9
- THOMAS HENRY WILLIAMSCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 10
From Kingsport
- KARL ANTHONY BROWNPrivate First Class · March 29, 1967
- WILLIAM FRANK DYKESLance Corporal · October 29, 1967
- RANDALL DOUGLAS YEARYSecond Lieutenant · January 14, 1968
- WILLIAM JACKSON ROBERTSPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- ROBERT BERYL STAFFORDSergeant · January 31, 1968
- JAMES EDDIE REEDCaptain · February 1, 1968
- DOUGLAS BUREM WADESecond Lieutenant · February 9, 1968
- ROBERT GLEN PRICESecond Lieutenant · May 4, 1968
- WILLIAM GUY POOLE IIISpecialist Four · June 5, 1968
- WILLARD FRANKLIN MORELOCKStaff Sergeant · September 24, 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.