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JAMES MICHAEL EARLY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 30, 1938 – August 21, 1969
Service recordJames Michael Early, of Lakeview, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 85
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Communications-Electronics Maintenance Chief (32Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 30, 1938
- Home of record
- Lakeview, Ohio (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1969
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1969; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 85
- JACK LEE CONNORSPrivate First Class · August 21, 1969
- DENNIS ANTHONY CUNNINGHAMCorporal · August 21, 1969
- DENNIS LAVERNE ENGLISHPrivate · August 21, 1969
- RUPERT A FUNDERBURK JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 1969
From Lakeview
- JERRY OWEN YOUNGPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- RANDALL LEE KRUEGERLance Corporal · September 18, 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.