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JAMES TERRELL BLALOCK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 23, 1947 – April 6, 1968
Service recordJames Terrell Blalock, of Salem, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 23
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- August 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Salem, Alabama (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 23
- ROBERT LEE BARKER JRPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- RONALD MARVIN BEECKSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- LEE ANDREW BOWDENSergeant · April 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD MARVIN BEECKSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 23
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 23
- WILLIAM FRANKLIN BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 24
- JACK DENNIS DOWNSPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 25
- LEE SCOTT ADAMSSecond Lieutenant · Panel 48E, Line 26
- ORONZO GEMMATICorporal · Panel 48E, Line 26
- BOBBY JOE GRAVELSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 26
- JOSEPH FRANK GULLUNG IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 27
- WILLIAM TYLER HANCOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 27
- ROBERT BARD KERCHNERSergeant · Panel 48E, Line 28
- CHARLES WILBURN MOODYStaff Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 30
- MICHAEL ALLAN SNYDERPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 35
- JIMMY RUSSELL SPACHPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 35
- LAWRENCE ALFRED SWANGUARIMPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 36
- GEORGE L WILSONSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 37
From Salem
- YOUNG DAVID OGLETREESergeant · March 16, 1968
- CARL GENE WARDSergeant · May 27, 1968
- HARRY GORDON PRINCE JRFirst Lieutenant · March 14, 1971
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.