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JAMES SHEPPARD MORGAN
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
August 17, 1928 – November 10, 1967
Service recordJames Sheppard Morgan, of El Dorado, Arkansas, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on November 10, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 68
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 366 TFW
- Born
- August 17, 1928
- Home of record
- El Dorado, Arkansas (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 10, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “366 TFW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 68
- NORMAN JAMES LIVINGSTONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- CLIFFORD JAMES LYTLESergeant · November 10, 1967
- JOHNNY WAYNE MCCAINPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- BERNHARDT WILLIAM MILLERPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KELLY FRANCIS COOKColonel · Panel 29E, Line 65
From El Dorado
- HARRY M GODWINFirst Lieutenant · March 4, 1966
- CURTIS RICHARD BAKERLieutenant · March 28, 1967
- JULIAN R HOOPERMaster Sergeant · August 30, 1967
- MIKE RAYMOND RASBERRYSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD WOLFE JRFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1968
- STEVEN GILL EPPERSONFirst Lieutenant · February 21, 1970
- JOHN CHARLES BURRISChief Warrant Officer 2 · May 31, 1970
- ROBERT THOMAS ELLIOTTSenior Master Sergeant · December 21, 1972
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.