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JAMES LOUIS MCCABE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 30, 1946 – January 8, 1970
Service recordJames Louis McCabe JR, of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1970, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 14
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quartermaster Heavy Equipment Repairman (63K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- October 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Carnegie, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1970
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 14
- JOSEPH MARK LAUINGERFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 1970
- JAMES CARROLL MITCHELL JRPetty Officer First Class · January 8, 1970
- JOHN EDWARD NIERERSergeant · January 8, 1970
- RONALD ERNEST PICKARTWarrant Officer 1 · January 8, 1970
From Carnegie
- FREDERICK PETER LANGERSergeant · February 7, 1966
- THOMAS RANDAL SCALISEPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- THOMAS STORY JESTERSpecialist Four · September 21, 1968
- CLIFFORD EARL HAYNES JRPrivate First Class · May 26, 1969
- ROY JEFFREY BURKESpecialist Four · December 21, 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.