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JAMES MAURICE MCGARVEY
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Marine Corps
August 21, 1933 – April 17, 1967
Service recordJames Maurice McGarvey, of Valparaiso, Indiana, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on April 17, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 42
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot Vma (Aw) (I), Frs Basic A-6 (7511)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMA AW 242 MAG 11 1 MAW
- Born
- August 21, 1933
- Home of record
- Valparaiso, Indiana (Porter County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 17, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VMA AW 242 MAG 11 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 42
- EARL LEE DERBYSergeant · April 17, 1967
- CHARLES MILLERPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- JOSE HERNANDEZ QUINTEROSpecialist Four · April 17, 1967
- DAVID ALLEN RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDMUND CARLTON JRMajor · Panel 18E, Line 39
From Valparaiso
- THOMAS R MANNINGSpecialist Four · February 10, 1967
- NICK JIM GRCICHSergeant First Class · March 20, 1967
- PHILLIP ROBERT VENEKAMPSergeant · June 18, 1967
- GEORGE ALFRED NASH JRLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- JOEL KENTON BROWNCorporal · February 18, 1968
- EDWARD ROGER CLAYPrivate First Class · June 10, 1968
- GLENN EDWARD MILESSergeant · October 21, 1968
- HOWARD KENNETH COOPERPrivate First Class · November 11, 1968
- JAMES DEE BLASKOSpecialist Four · May 1, 1969
- STEPHEN GREGORY MAUSENSpecialist Four · June 25, 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.