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JAMES OSCAR ARROWOOD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 30, 1946 – September 13, 1968
Service recordJames Oscar Arrowood, of Cumberland, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 13, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 44
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Cumberland, Maryland (Allegany County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 44
- LESTER LEE WOODFirst Lieutenant · September 12, 1968
- ARLEY GEORGE ABRAHAMPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
- SAMUEL LEROY AKINSPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
- CURTIS LEE ANDERSENWarrant Officer 1 · September 13, 1968
From Cumberland
- FREDERICK NORMAN BAKERSpecialist Four · June 12, 1965
- WELLINGTON MARTIN DONAHUEPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- CHARLES E ARONHALT JRFirst Lieutenant · May 18, 1967
- THOMAS JOHN MCMAHONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WERTMANLance Corporal · October 5, 1967
- JOHN DERWOOD SAVILLE JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- JOSEPH PATRICK ROWLEYSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- ROGER DALE WILFONGStaff Sergeant · October 27, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD GENTRYPrivate First Class · October 29, 1967
- THOMAS JACOB TORRINGTONLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
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.