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JAMES PAUL VOJIR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 14, 1948 – February 12, 1968
Service recordJames Paul Vojir, of Jackson Heights, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 12, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 14
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Jackson Heights, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Quang Duc Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 14
- WILLIAM A SIMSPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
- JOHN HOWARD SUYDAM IIISpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- KENNETH EUGENE TICHNELLSpecialist Five · February 12, 1968
- GERALD ALEXANDER TUCKERSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LEE COKERPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 3
- ELVESTER HESTER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 6
- GEOVEL LOPEZ-GARCIACorporal · Panel 39E, Line 8
- BOBBY COLLINS SUTHERLANDSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 13
- RICHARD EDWARD WAGNERSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 15
From Jackson Heights
- PAUL ANTHONY DEVERSLance Corporal · August 10, 1965
- JACK CHARLES RODRIGUEZPetty Officer Second Class · February 14, 1966
- JAMES JOHN BROPHYCorporal · May 21, 1966
- NEIL STEPHEN WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- STEPHEN WILLIAM PICKETTPrivate First Class · December 14, 1967
- JAMES TIERNOCorporal · December 15, 1967
- MARTIN EDWARD OGRADYPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- GLENN ALLEN LUCASCorporal · February 1, 1968
- FRANK JOSEPH MCMANUSPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- JOHN ANDREW KUCICHSpecialist Four · February 19, 1969
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.