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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James P Boyd.

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JAMES P BOYD

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 12, 1946 – April 7, 1967

Service record

James P Boyd, of London, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 115

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Fire Support Specialist (13F)
Unit (as recorded)
A BTRY 5 BN 2 ARTY II FF
Born
February 12, 1946
Home of record
London, Texas (Kimble County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 7, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “A BTRY 5 BN 2 ARTY II FF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 115

Same unit, same day

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.