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JAMES MICHAEL SUNDAY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 17, 1945 – September 29, 1967
Service recordJames Michael Sunday, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Garfield Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 29, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1967; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 32
- ROBERT JEREMIAH SMITHCorporal · September 29, 1967
- CULLEN GEORGE STARNES JRMajor · September 29, 1967
- GEORGE HENRY ULRICHCorporal · September 29, 1967
- BENNETT G WILDERChief Warrant Officer 3 · September 29, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FREDDIE MCWILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 30
From Garfield Heights
- DAVID WILLIAM HARTLEYPrivate First Class · May 5, 1966
- VAN CHAFFEEPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
- WILLIAM RICHARD FRANCECorporal · September 6, 1967
- DONALD RICHARD BRUCKNERSergeant · January 7, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES PAPASergeant · May 5, 1968
- JOHN JAMES MATUSKASpecialist Four · September 29, 1968
- DANA LAWRENCE ZALESKIPrivate First Class · February 5, 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.