The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
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 Oliver Hughes.

The Wall › Panel 12E › Texas › James Oliver Hughes

JAMES OLIVER HUGHES

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 24, 1943 – November 12, 1966

Service record

James Oliver Hughes, of Overton, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 63

Position of Panel 12E 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.

See this name on the Wall

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.

Share a photo or memoryPhotos & remembrances on VVMF’s Wall of Faces ↗

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 24, 1943
Home of record
Overton, Texas (Rusk County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 12, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.

Read the history

On the Wall

Elsewhere

Also on Panel 12E, Line 63

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.