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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Raymond Mulvaney JR.

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JAMES RAYMOND MULVANEY JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 3, 1948 – January 23, 1969

Service record

James Raymond Mulvaney JR, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 66

Position of Panel 34W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
April 3, 1948
Home of record
St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 23, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 66

From St Paul

All 132 names from St Paul →

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.