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JAMES PRICE SPENCER
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 3, 1940 – January 24, 1967
Service recordJames Price Spencer, of War Creek, Kentucky, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 3, 1940
- Home of record
- War Creek, Kentucky (Breathitt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 75
- OWEN DAVID GOODSELLSpecialist Four · January 24, 1967
- FRANCIS JAMES THOMPSONCaptain · January 24, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD VANHOUTENPrivate First Class · January 24, 1967
- CLARK L WALKERSpecialist Four · January 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WAYNE KENNYSergeant · Panel 14E, Line 74
- JOHN ALOYSIUS LAMBIE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 74
From War Creek
- MARION WATKINSPrivate First Class · November 19, 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.