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JAMES M LEVINGS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 18, 1948 – May 23, 1968
Service recordJames M Levings, of New Town, North Dakota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66E · Line 10
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 18, 1948
- Home of record
- New Town, North Dakota (Mountrail County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 66E, Line 10
- EARL J GUILLORYSergeant · May 23, 1968
- TOMMY HARDWICKPrivate First Class · May 23, 1968
- HAROLD RICHARD HAYDENSpecialist Four · May 23, 1968
- GLEN OLIVER LANEMaster Sergeant · May 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- IVAN KIMOKEO PASCALPrivate First Class · Panel 67E, Line 2
From New Town
- ROGER EARL FOREMANSergeant · July 18, 1969
- BYRON KENT KULLANDFirst Lieutenant · April 2, 1972
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.