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JAMES LLOYD PARSONS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 10, 1945 – April 19, 1968
Service recordJames Lloyd Parsons, of Warsaw, Missouri, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 52
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Officer (I) (0802)
- Born
- March 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Warsaw, Missouri (Benton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 19, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
67 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 52
- MARCELO ORTIZ JRCorporal · April 19, 1968
- DENNIS EARL PAINTERFirst Lieutenant · April 19, 1968
- ANDREW JAMES PAYNE JRPrivate First Class · April 19, 1968
- RICHARD STEVE PENNAMONSpecialist Four · April 19, 1968
From Warsaw
- JAMES LOYD OHARASergeant · July 7, 1969
- NATHAN JAMES MANNCorporal · April 1, 1970
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.