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JAMES PATRICK GALVIN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 4, 1942 – December 1, 1966
Service recordJames Patrick Galvin, of Davis, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 1, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 132 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 132
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Born
- December 4, 1942
- Home of record
- Davis, California (Yolo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 132
- ROBERT EDWARD BUTLERPrivate First Class · December 1, 1966
- STEPHEN WAYNE DAYPrivate First Class · December 1, 1966
- FORREST PITTMAN DICKEYSpecialist Four · December 1, 1966
- XAVIER FERNANDEZSpecialist Four · December 1, 1966
From Davis
- JOHN LAWRENCE BAROVETTOCaptain · January 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT NASHSpecialist Four · April 14, 1968
- JAMES GRAY ROWE JRSergeant · June 29, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM OKEEFEMajor · June 19, 1969
- BILLY EUGENE MOOREStaff Sergeant · January 21, 1970
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.