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JAMES PAUL YOUNG
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 13, 1926 – June 13, 1970
Service recordJames Paul Young, of Carterville, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 44. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 52
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- May 13, 1926
- Home of record
- Carterville, Illinois (Williamson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1970
- Age
- 44
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 52
- GARY LYNN GRIMESLance Corporal · June 13, 1970
- ASCENSION ROSALES PEREZGunnery Sergeant · June 13, 1970
- DONNIE RAY SIZEMOREPrivate First Class · June 13, 1970
- CHARLES ALLEN BROOKSSpecialist Four · June 14, 1970
From Carterville
- JACK CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · September 29, 1966
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.