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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 Paul Perrone JR.

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JAMES PAUL PERRONE JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 31, 1947 – March 12, 1967

Service record

James Paul Perrone JR, of Wanaque, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 71

Position of Panel 16E 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.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 31, 1947
Home of record
Wanaque, New Jersey (Passaic County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 12, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 71

Same unit, same day

From Wanaque

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.