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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 Robert Heard JR.

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JAMES ROBERT HEARD JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 7, 1947 – September 26, 1968

Service record

James Robert Heard JR, of St Clair, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 26, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 42W · Line 18

Position of Panel 42W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 7, 1947
Home of record
St Clair, Alabama (Lowndes County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 26, 1968
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

55 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1968. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.

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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.