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JAMES LEONARD EPLIN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 13, 1913 – November 13, 1968
Service recordJames Leonard Eplin, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 55. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 59
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 13, 1913
- Home of record
- Chapmanville, West Virginia (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1968
- Age
- 55
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1968. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 59
- JAMES ALLEN BOOTSPrivate First Class · November 13, 1968
- LOREN EUGENE ENGSTROMWarrant Officer 1 · November 13, 1968
- FREDERICK M GILSINGER JRPrivate First Class · November 13, 1968
- DENNIS GORDON HANSONPrivate First Class · November 13, 1968
From Chapmanville
- JOE D STOWERSPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- ROBERT CLAYTON STEPHENSONPrivate First Class · April 23, 1967
- EDWARD LESTERPrivate First Class · July 9, 1968
- GLENN ROGER WORKMANPrivate First Class · July 3, 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.