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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Robert Page.

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JAMES ROBERT PAGE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

June 22, 1947 – June 11, 1967

Service record

James Robert Page, of Genoa, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 21E · Line 85

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
June 22, 1947
Home of record
Genoa, Illinois (De Kalb County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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40 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 21E, Line 85

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.