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JAMES LEWIS SHEFF
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 13, 1950 – May 11, 1971
Service recordJames Lewis Sheff, of Rural Hall, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 33
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tubine Engine Drive/Generator Repairer (52F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- July 13, 1950
- Home of record
- Rural Hall, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1971; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 39 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 33
- NATHAN LARRY LEESpecialist Four · May 11, 1971
- JAMES RICHARD COOPERSpecialist Four · May 12, 1971
- GUY VICTOR FEARNSergeant · May 12, 1971
- EDELMIRO LEONEL GARCIA SRSpecialist Five · May 12, 1971
- ALLAN LOMBARD DUNNING JREnsign · October 19, 1973
From Rural Hall
- HAROLD BURTONPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- JIMMY RUSSELL SPACHPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
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.