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JAMES RILEY LEDBETTER
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
September 17, 1946 – March 12, 1968
Service recordJames Riley Ledbetter, of Lebanon, Missouri, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 12, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 28
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 2 BN 3 MAR
- Born
- September 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Missouri (Laclede County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 28
- PAUL TEJEDA ARAMBULAPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- RODNEY JOHN LAWSONFirst Sergeant · March 12, 1968
- WILLIE B LEEPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- JOHN LEE MATTOCKCorporal · March 12, 1968
From Lebanon
- DONNIE LEN DARROWMajor · November 30, 1967
- JEARL RAY PATTENSpecialist Four · April 7, 1968
- HOWARD EUGENE BROWN JRSeaman · January 9, 1970
- GENE RANDOLF KENNEDYSpecialist Four · March 19, 1971
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.