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JAMES TERRY ABBOTT
Specialist Six · U.S. Army
February 19, 1944 – January 11, 1971
Service recordJames Terry Abbott, of Flora, Indiana, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 38
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 Six (SP6)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cid Special Agent (95D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 19, 1944
- Home of record
- Flora, Indiana (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 1971
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 38
- PHILIP J ADAMSSpecialist Four · January 9, 1971
- STEPHEN PAUL KRUGSpecialist Four · January 10, 1971
- JOE HENRY LILLIESpecialist Four · January 10, 1971
- CORNELIUS HERBERT RAMMajor · January 10, 1971
- JACKIE LEE SAWNEYSpecialist Four · January 10, 1971
From Flora
- RONALD CHARLES COLLINSPrivate First Class · December 15, 1969
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.