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JAMES MAYS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 17, 1946 – May 8, 1967
Service recordJames Mays JR, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1967, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1967; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 63
- ROBERT LYNN MARGOLISPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- ROBERT GRESHAM MAYESStaff Sergeant · May 8, 1967
- GARY FRANCIS MCCUELance Corporal · May 8, 1967
- JIMMY EDWARD PAGELance Corporal · May 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL CHEROFFSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 56
- ROBERT DEE SELLS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 66
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.