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JAMES RUSSELL WEST
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 3, 1947 – January 24, 1968
Service recordJames Russell West, of Gray, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 24, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Gray, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 28
- MICHAEL EUGENE STEPHENSPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
- BILLY LEWIS STRICKLANDCorporal · January 24, 1968
- CHARLES MOTT WHITE SRPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
- GEORGE DONALD ANDERSONSpecialist Four · January 25, 1968
From Gray
- DAVID DAN FOSTERPrivate First Class · January 5, 1969
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.