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JAMES THOMAS DOUGLAS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 13, 1933 – February 6, 1969
Service recordJames Thomas Douglas, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 71
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 13, 1933
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1969
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- 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 February 6, 1969; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 71
- ROLAND LORENZO HARRISSergeant First Class · February 6, 1969
- LEWIS CARLTON JONES JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1969
- DENNIS MEVES KEITHSpecialist Four · February 6, 1969
- MICHAEL JOSEPH SINCAVAGESpecialist Four · February 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS MEVES KEITHSpecialist Four · Panel 33W, Line 71
- RAFAEL MELENDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 33W, Line 72
- MISTER REDDIX JRPrivate First Class · Panel 33W, Line 73
- TROY NELSON SITTONPrivate First Class · Panel 33W, Line 74
- RODNEY DALE WISESpecialist Four · Panel 33W, Line 75
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.