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JAMES PERRY SINGLETON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 9, 1932 – March 8, 1968
Service recordJames Perry Singleton, of Abingdon, Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 61
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 9, 1932
- Home of record
- Abingdon, Virginia (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 61
- LARRY RAY REDMONSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- PHILLIP EDWARD SEXTONPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- MICHAEL ANGELO SHRAMKOPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- DANNY LEE SMOTHERSSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ELVIN L ALLENPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 51
- CLEMENT BRADLEY GRUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 54
- EDUARDO JIMENEZPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 55
- WILLIAM T PUFFENBARGERPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 59
- DAVID MACK REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 59
- MARVIN NELSON RICHARDSONSpecialist Five · Panel 43E, Line 59
- JOHN EDGAR SEVERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 60
- LARRY RAY REDMONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 61
- HAROLD EVERETT WALKER JRSpecialist Five · Panel 43E, Line 63
- DALE KEITH WILSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 43E, Line 63
From Abingdon
- ROBERT MORRIS COOKEPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- JAMES DAVID ROARKPetty Officer Second Class · November 12, 1967
- HENRY GLEAVES CRIGGERCorporal · November 15, 1967
- LEONARD HARRISON SNEAD JRPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- GEORGE JOSE COXStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1968
- CHARLES E SHAWSpecialist Four · March 30, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM WHITTENCorporal · March 21, 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.