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JAMES LEE LAKE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 20, 1947 – May 12, 1968
Service recordJames Lee Lake, of Aurora, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 6
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Cargo Specialist (57H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- April 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Aurora, Illinois (Kane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 6
- WILLIAM JACK EISENHOWERSergeant · May 12, 1968
- JERRY FLETCHERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- OMAR DAVID JONESFirst Lieutenant · May 12, 1968
- JACK HARLAN KAMRATHPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- JOHN ELDEN LAIPPLESergeant · May 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL A BAILEYCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 29
- DANIEL JOHN TABABOO JRCorporal · Panel 59E, Line 14
- BRUCE JEFFREY WILDERPrivate First Class · Panel 59E, Line 15
From Aurora
- CHARLES B JEFFRIES JRSpecialist Four · March 16, 1966
- JOHN PAUL CRANDALLSergeant · March 21, 1967
- RAMIRO CARDENASLance Corporal · February 27, 1968
- RICHARD LEE GARLICKPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- DENNIS ARRON TOADVINECorporal · March 11, 1968
- ALBERT EUGENE DAHLSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
- GERALD JOHN LAFLEURSpecialist Four · July 15, 1968
- KARL RICHARD HARINGSergeant · September 24, 1968
- ROBERT DALE HERREIDStaff Sergeant · October 10, 1968
- JAMES ALLAN ASCHERFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 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.