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JAMES LANE TALLEY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 30, 1943 – June 19, 1964
Service recordJames Lane Talley, of Ft Benning, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on June 19, 1964, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 30, 1943
- Home of record
- Ft Benning, Georgia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- June 19, 1964
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1964; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1964, 18 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 15
- ROBERTO SAMANIEGOCaptain · June 19, 1965
- CLAYTON LEON CRUCEPrivate · June 21, 1965
- KENNETH WAYNE PARKERLance Corporal · June 21, 1965
- WILLIAM EDWARD CORDEROMajor · June 22, 1965
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ISAAC LEDBETTERCaptain · Panel 1E, Line 54
- HARRY ALLEN WALLINGSergeant · Panel 1E, Line 54
From Ft Benning
- MILES HENRY NELSONFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1967
- DAVID ARTHUR PURSERCorporal · March 16, 1968
- ROBERT HELM WOODCorporal · April 9, 1968
- ROLAND NATHANIEL BARNABYSpecialist Five · July 12, 1968
- DONALD WILLIAM BROWNCorporal · August 23, 1968
- FRED ORR JACKSON JRCaptain · September 5, 1969
- FRANKLIN LEE WEISNERMajor · October 10, 1969
- LEONARD THOMAS HIGDONCaptain · May 21, 1970
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.