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JAMES LEROY WALLACE
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 3, 1947 – April 23, 1968
Service recordJames Leroy Wallace, of Martinsville, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 23, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 43
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Martinsville, Illinois (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 23, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 43
- JOHN LEROY VINCENTPrivate First Class · April 23, 1968
- JACKIE DALE WALKERPrivate First Class · April 23, 1968
- JOHN SAMUEL WISEMANCorporal · April 23, 1968
- HERMAN A HESSELSCHWARDTPrivate First Class · April 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JESSE JAMES COONSergeant · Panel 51E, Line 37
- DAVID PAUL SPEATHCorporal · Panel 51E, Line 42
From Martinsville
- RHONDAL GENE CLAYPOOLSpecialist Four · February 18, 1968
- GERALD LEROY THARPPrivate · March 12, 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.