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JAMES LENARD GALES
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
November 9, 1946 – May 26, 1967
Service recordJames Lenard Gales, of Bynum, North Carolina, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 26, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 115
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- November 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Bynum, North Carolina (Chatham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 115
- RODGER LEE FORTUNESpecialist Four · May 26, 1967
- DENNIS WILLARD FRASIERPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- PHILLIP RAY GAINESPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- JERONIMO GARCIA-SOTOSergeant First Class · May 26, 1967
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.