The Wall › Panel 57E › Florida › James Samuel Singletary
JAMES SAMUEL SINGLETARY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 22, 1944 – May 8, 1968
Service recordJames Samuel Singletary, of Ojus, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 10
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Ojus, Florida (Dade County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; nine of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 115 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 10
- RICHARD MICHAEL SENGPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- CARL WILLIAM SPARROWPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- MICHAEL HENRY STEWARTCorporal · May 8, 1968
- WOODROE WARREN WARTHFirst Lieutenant · May 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MIGUEL A ABREU-BATISTA JRCorporal · Panel 56E, Line 34
- JOE CARRILLO JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 56E, Line 35
- STEVEN JAMES PRESCOTTPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 8
- JEFFERY MICHAEL QUIRKSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 9
- MICHAEL HENRY STEWARTCorporal · Panel 57E, Line 10
From Ojus
- JERRY RUSSELL SANSINGSpecialist Five · August 20, 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.