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JAMES RICHARD ADAMS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 4, 1947 – April 22, 1967
Service recordJames Richard Adams, of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 118 AVA CO 145 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Cedar Hill, Tennessee (Robertson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 67
- EDWARD JAMES BELLSergeant First Class · April 22, 1967
- KIT BLACKWELDERPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- ARNOLD LEE BROCKPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- LOUIS FRANCIS CERRANO JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
From Cedar Hill
- JOHN WILLIAM PARHAMSergeant · March 18, 1969
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.