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JAMES LEE WADE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 22, 1948 – December 6, 1967
Service recordJames Lee Wade JR, of Vidalia, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 6, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 55
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Vidalia, Georgia (Toombs County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 55
- RICHARD WILLIAM VAUGHNSecond Lieutenant · December 6, 1967
- BERT VELEZCorporal · December 6, 1967
- NATHAN MONROE WHITEGunnery Sergeant · December 6, 1967
- TEDDY GENE WHITTONSpecialist Five · December 6, 1967
From Vidalia
- SAM HARRIS GALLOWAYSecond Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- KENNETH DEE MOORESpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
- JOHNNY WILLIAM HUMPHREYSpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
- WALTER FRANK BYRD JRSpecialist Four · December 4, 1968
- JAMES IRA SANFORDPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- ONNIE DAVID DUNCANSergeant · August 26, 1970
- NATHANIEL LEWISPrivate First Class · October 29, 1970
- VERNON HARTSpecialist Four · August 15, 1971
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.