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JAMES QUINEL AYDLETT
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 21, 1941 – July 11, 1966
Service recordJames Quinel Aydlett, of Akron, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 121 AVN CO 13 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- April 21, 1941
- Home of record
- Akron, Ohio (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 11, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “121 AVN CO 13 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 16
- ROBERT WILLIAM PECKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- ROBERT PATRICK SOUSALance Corporal · July 10, 1966
- JOHNNY RAY TAGMANPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- EUGENE JOLLYSpecialist Five · July 11, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DAVID EUGENE NANCEPrivate First Class · Panel 9E, Line 17
- ANGELO JOSEPH SFERRAZZASpecialist Four · Panel 9E, Line 17
From Akron
- PAUL R HELTSLEY IIIPrivate First Class · July 17, 1964
- ANDREW MILLARD KEACaptain · May 16, 1965
- GEORGE HOWARD FRAZEE JRSergeant · May 28, 1965
- FRANK WILLARD WILSONCorporal · June 6, 1965
- ROBERT DUANE STEPANOVSpecialist Four · July 5, 1965
- RICHARD WEBSTERSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- WAYNE HULEN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1966
- RICHARD DOUGLAS HOGARTHFirst Lieutenant · May 6, 1966
- JOSEPH STANLEY VESELY JRSpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- CLIFFORD LEE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · July 20, 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.