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JAMES SAMUELS
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 18, 1939 – November 27, 1967
Service recordJames Samuels, of Tuckahoe, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 27, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 99
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Warehouse Clerk (3051)
- Born
- September 18, 1939
- Home of record
- Tuckahoe, New York (Westchester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 99
- JOSE RAMOS JRSpecialist Four · November 27, 1967
- HECTOR LOUIS SANCHEZPrivate First Class · November 27, 1967
- BILLIE E SANDEFURFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1967
- WILLIAM SCOTT SLOCUMPrivate First Class · November 27, 1967
From Tuckahoe
- ROBERT CHARLES MURRAYStaff Sergeant · June 7, 1970
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.