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JAMES RALPH ETHERIDGE
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army
October 23, 1932 – February 23, 1968
Service recordJames Ralph Etheridge, of Milledgeville, Georgia, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 73
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 23, 1932
- Home of record
- Milledgeville, Georgia (Baldwin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Tuyen Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; three of them were lost in Tuyen Duc Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 73
- RUBEN ANTHONY BURGESSPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- JAMES CHISHOLMPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- LONNIE WARREN CLARKCorporal · February 23, 1968
- JERRY DEWAIN EVANSSpecialist Four · February 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES EDWARD PURSERMajor · Panel 41E, Line 2
- CHARLES FREDERICK STROCKSergeant · Panel 41E, Line 4
From Milledgeville
- JAMES FLOYD RAYCaptain · January 9, 1965
- MARION EDWARD JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JIMMY BEDGOODStaff Sergeant · May 6, 1968
- WILLIE LEE FREEMANLance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- CHARLES ALBERT FRALEYPrivate First Class · April 8, 1970
- EARL EDWIN SHANNONSpecialist Four · December 13, 1970
- DONALD CALVIN CORDLESergeant First Class · December 18, 1970
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.