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JAMES RAY VANCEDARFIELD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 26, 1944 – December 12, 1966
Service recordJames Ray Vancedarfield, of East Haddam, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 40
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 26, 1944
- Home of record
- East Haddam, Connecticut (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 40
- KENNETH RHODESSpecialist Four · December 12, 1966
- ANTHONY CHRISTOPHER SCIVOLINOSpecialist Four · December 12, 1966
- ERIC WILLIAM EVANSCorporal · December 13, 1966
- ERNEST GREENSpecialist Four · December 13, 1966
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH RHODESSpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 40
- ANTHONY CHRISTOPHER SCIVOLINOSpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 40
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.