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JAMES MARION ELLIS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 6, 1949 – May 5, 1969
Service recordJames Marion Ellis, of Honea Path, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 4
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
- February 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Honea Path, South Carolina (Abbeville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1969; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 25W, Line 4
- RICHARD L BAUMBERGER JRPetty Officer Third Class · May 5, 1969
- WOODROW WILSON BISHOP JRSpecialist Four · May 5, 1969
- ODELL CRAIGSpecialist Four · May 5, 1969
- CURTIS CLEVELAND DEESSergeant First Class · May 5, 1969
From Honea Path
- BROADUS ALFRED WHITTPrivate First Class · March 25, 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.