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JAMES STEPHEN COLOMBERO
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 13, 1945 – May 28, 1969
Service recordJames Stephen Colombero, of Mccloud, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 6
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 15 ENG CO 299 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- May 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Mccloud, California (Siskiyou County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1969; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “15 ENG CO 299 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 6
- DUANE CURTIS BOWENSpecialist Four · May 28, 1969
- MARVIN CLARENCE BRISSSpecialist Four · May 28, 1969
- RICHARD LYNN BRUMFIELDSergeant · May 28, 1969
- CALVIN EMANUEL COOPERPrivate First Class · May 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FLOYD EDWARD BARBERSpecialist Four · Panel 23W, Line 5
- DUDLEY JAMES BENEFIEL JRFirst Sergeant · Panel 23W, Line 5
- VALENTINE MARION DWORNIKSpecialist Four · Panel 23W, Line 8
- DAVID ROY MANNSpecialist Four · Panel 23W, Line 10
- DENNIS RAY MEETZESpecialist Four · Panel 23W, Line 10
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.