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JAMES LEWIS FIELDS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
January 23, 1933 – March 29, 1967
Service recordJames Lewis Fields, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 29, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- January 23, 1933
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 67
- JOHN WILLARD CLARYPlatoon Sergeant · March 29, 1967
- JOHN COYLESpecialist Four · March 29, 1967
- DAVID LEWIS GLASSCOCKSpecialist Four · March 29, 1967
- WILLIAM HADLEY HOSEACaptain · March 29, 1967
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.