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JAMES RONALD SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 1, 1948 – November 29, 1969
Service recordJames Ronald Smith, of Moore, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 8
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ew/Sigint Morse Interceptor (05H)
- Born
- December 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Moore, Oklahoma (Cleveland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1969; seven of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 8
- DENNIS JOSEPH REARDONFirst Lieutenant · November 29, 1969
- JOHN WAYNE ROLESSpecialist Four · November 29, 1969
- CLYDE EUGENE THOMASSpecialist Four · November 29, 1969
- LARRY ELLIOTT WATSONPrivate First Class · November 29, 1969
From Moore
- ROBERT LEON HARVEYSpecialist Four · February 26, 1967
- BENJAMIN FOREST BOLDINGCorporal · February 15, 1969
- CARL EUGENE WHEELERSpecialist Four · December 14, 1969
- ALFRED FRANK POSPISILSpecialist Four · August 7, 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.