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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Michael Sullivan.

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JAMES MICHAEL SULLIVAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

July 1, 1947 – March 28, 1969

Service record

James Michael Sullivan, of Glendale, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 76

Position of Panel 28W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 1, 1947
Home of record
Glendale, New York (Lewis County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 28, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 76

Same unit, same day

From Glendale

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.