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JAMES VOELKEL DONNELLY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 27, 1944 – March 25, 1966
Service recordJames Voelkel Donnelly, of Wilmington, Delaware, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Wilmington, Delaware (New Castle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 48
- RICHARD ALLEN ECKVALLSergeant · March 25, 1966
- HUGH WILLIAM ELMORECorporal · March 25, 1966
- RICHARD MAYNARD EPPSSergeant · March 25, 1966
- THOMAS KEITH KINGPrivate First Class · March 25, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES HARMONSpecialist Four · Panel 6E, Line 47
- HUGH WILLIAM ELMORECorporal · Panel 6E, Line 48
From Wilmington
- WILBERT RUDOLPH BUTLERPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- FREDERICK E SMITHPrivate First Class · February 26, 1966
- EDMUND LAWRENCE SUDLERSpecialist Four · March 23, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD PORTERSergeant · April 8, 1966
- ROBERT NIELSEN TAMSPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- ROBERT MICHAEL BOWMANPrivate First Class · June 29, 1966
- JAMES JOSEPH CONNELLLieutenant Commander · July 15, 1966
- WOLFRAM WALTHER BISCHOFSergeant First Class · February 13, 1967
- LOUIS ANTHONY LEATHERBURYPrivate · March 24, 1967
- ELMORE BRITTINGHAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 25, 1967
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.