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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Raymond Englert.

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JAMES RAYMOND ENGLERT

Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 23, 1949 – September 16, 1968

Service record

James Raymond Englert, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 16, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 43W · Line 4

Position of Panel 43W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
November 23, 1949
Home of record
Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 16, 1968
Age
18
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1968; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 43W, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Cincinnati

All 226 names from Cincinnati →

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.