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JAMES PATRICK MALONEY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1951 – November 9, 1971
Service recordJames Patrick Maloney JR, of New Hartford, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 64
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Communications Center Specialist (72B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1951
- Home of record
- New Hartford, New York (Oneida County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 9, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1971; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1971, 109 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 64
- EARL DUANE BARKLEYSergeant · November 9, 1971
- DAVID JAMES WATSONSpecialist Four · November 9, 1971
- JOHN MICHAEL CLARKSergeant · November 10, 1971
- JAMES PATRICK DELANEYChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 10, 1971
Same unit, same day
- EARL DUANE BARKLEYSergeant · Panel 2W, Line 64
- DAVID JAMES WATSONSpecialist Four · Panel 2W, Line 64
From New Hartford
- GEORGE SIDELKOCorporal · April 30, 1969
- PHILIP BRADFORD TERRILLSpecialist Five · March 31, 1971
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.