The Wall › Panel 44E › Texas › James Milton Warr
JAMES MILTON WARR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 25, 1948 – March 11, 1968
Service recordJames Milton Warr, of Pleasanton, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 22
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Pleasanton, Texas (Atascosa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 22
- TONY LARUE TATESpecialist Four · March 11, 1968
- TERENCE PIERCE THOMASPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- DENNIS ARRON TOADVINECorporal · March 11, 1968
- JEFFREY ARTHUR TURNERPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ALBERT ANDREWSPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 13
- ELMER DALE LAUCKChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 44E, Line 18
From Pleasanton
- MOISES ROMERO HERRERA JRSergeant · November 2, 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.