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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Larry Burney.

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JAMES LARRY BURNEY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 3, 1946 – January 8, 1968

Service record

James Larry Burney, of Bay City, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 80

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
December 3, 1946
Home of record
Bay City, Michigan (Bay County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 8, 1968
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Long An Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 80

Same unit, same day

From Bay City

All 18 names from Bay City →

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.