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JAMES LEE BLANTON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 25, 1946 – May 13, 1969
Service recordJames Lee Blanton JR, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 94
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
112 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1969; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 94
- BRUCE CARLTON BESSORCaptain · May 13, 1969
- PATRICK WALLACE BESTPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- JIMMIE RAY BICEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- MICHAEL DELANO BLEAPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- REX CHARLES ALLREDSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 92
- THOMAS EUGENE FOSTERSergeant · Panel 25W, Line 99
- PAUL VENON GOODWINCorporal · Panel 25W, Line 100
- JOHN ANTHONY PEREZSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 109
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.