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JAMES LARRY EVANS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
September 23, 1941 – March 22, 1967
Service recordJames Larry Evans, of Florence, Alabama, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- September 23, 1941
- Home of record
- Florence, Alabama (Lauderdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 18
- CHARLES EUGENE FLETCHERSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- JOSEPH DAVID FRANCOLINISpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- FRANK GRANATOPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- RALPH GRAYPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES C ANDERSON JRCaptain · Panel 17E, Line 16
- ROBERT L MATTHEWSSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 21
From Florence
- PHILLIP DON CHILDERSFirst Lieutenant · May 28, 1965
- FELIX DELOACH KING JRSecond Lieutenant · November 6, 1965
- SAMUEL EARL COKERPrivate · November 14, 1965
- ROBERT LEE MCCAIGSpecialist Four · May 8, 1966
- ROGER JERREL BRYANTPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
- PAUL ONEAL BROWNStaff Sergeant · November 20, 1966
- DANNY JOE WILSONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1966
- RICHARD J GLENNFirst Lieutenant · February 8, 1968
- EDWARD LEE BROCKSpecialist Four · May 6, 1968
- JAMES DALE HODGESPrivate First Class · May 25, 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.