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JAMES LOA BUSEN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 6, 1949 – October 6, 1969
Service recordJames Loa Busen, of Mt Sterling, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 6, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 44
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utilitiesman (UT)
- Unit (as recorded)
- CBMU 301 3 NC BDE
- Born
- April 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Mt Sterling, Illinois (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 6, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 44
- LARRY GENE BURKHOLDERPrivate First Class · October 5, 1969
- JOHN ROBERT VINNEDGESpecialist Four · October 5, 1969
- IRVIN LESTER BOWER JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1969
- BRUCE LEE CARDYCaptain · October 6, 1969
From Mt Sterling
- JOHN WALTER SCOTTPrivate First Class · July 14, 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.