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JAMES LEE FERRELL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 17, 1940 – November 10, 1969
Service recordJames Lee Ferrell, of Cicero, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 10, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 52
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cargo Specialist (57H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- December 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Cicero, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 52
- ARTHUR JOHN CASTILLOCorporal · November 10, 1969
- DANIEL JOSEPH DAVIDENKOConstructionman · November 10, 1969
- ROBERT JOHN FULLERSpecialist Four · November 10, 1969
- JAMES MICHAEL HASENFLUGPrivate First Class · November 10, 1969
From Cicero
- GEORGE CARL BIGLEYSergeant First Class · January 3, 1965
- CHARLES A ZIONTSSpecialist Four · March 16, 1966
- RICHARD ALLEN KOSKYCorporal · December 20, 1966
- JOHN THOMAS MIKRUTPrivate First Class · April 30, 1967
- ALAN RICHARD MAYPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- LARRY ANTHONY CARAVETTAPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSEPH BOLAND JRPrivate First Class · June 29, 1968
- RONALD LE ROY OSTENSONPrivate First Class · February 1, 1969
- GEORGE ALBERT F DASHO JRSpecialist Four · April 10, 1969
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.