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JAMES ROBERT ADAMS
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 6, 1942 – March 20, 1968
Service recordJames Robert Adams, of Bartow, Florida, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 36
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 6, 1942
- Home of record
- Bartow, Florida (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 45E, Line 36
- HAROLD SHELBY WOOD JRSpecialist Five · March 19, 1968
- JEFFREY J YARGERWarrant Officer 1 · March 19, 1968
- JIMMY RANDLE YOUNGPrivate First Class · March 19, 1968
- DOUGLAS LEE ZELLERSpecialist Four · March 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH J CASSIDY JRSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 38
- WILLIAM GOODHEARTSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 39
- WILLIE GRANT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 39
- EUGENE SMALLPrivate · Panel 45E, Line 43
- ABELARDO VERASergeant · Panel 45E, Line 44
From Bartow
- DONALD COLES WOODRUFFCaptain · July 20, 1966
- ALVIN GENE HILLSergeant · June 22, 1967
- JAMES F FUQUASpecialist Four · February 13, 1968
- FRED RICHARD GLOVERSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- EDWIN LEWIS CAHALLPetty Officer First Class · June 9, 1968
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.