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JAMES NEIL WALL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 28, 1949 – July 15, 1969
Service recordJames Neil Wall, of Live Oak, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 4
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Live Oak, Florida (Suwannee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 15, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 4
- MICHAEL STEPHEN WALKERCaptain · July 15, 1969
- ROBERT HAROLD WOODSergeant · July 15, 1969
- ARTHUR RICHARD ALLISONSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- BRUCE CARLYLE ANDERSONPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HARVEY F ROUNTREE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 2
From Live Oak
- DUNCAN EDWARD BASS JRSergeant · November 18, 1966
- OTTO WAYNE AUESergeant · October 15, 1968
- LARRY JENKINSPrivate First Class · November 24, 1968
- PERRY DAVID JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · February 8, 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.