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JAMES NOBLE KALIL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 25, 1944 – August 18, 1965
Service recordJames Noble Kalil, of Osceola, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 58
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tracked Vehicle Repairer, Assault Amphibious Vehicle (2142)
- Born
- March 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Osceola, Indiana (St Joseph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1965
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1965; 45 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 58
- HARRY LEONARD KAUS JRPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- WILLIAM CLIVE LAIDLAWCorporal · August 18, 1965
- EDDIE LEE LANDRYLance Corporal · August 18, 1965
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.