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JAMES WALKER GUEST
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 7, 1946 – February 20, 1968
Service recordJames Walker Guest, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 40
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- April 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 40
- STEPHEN MICHAEL HANSENSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- JIMMIE LEE HARVINCorporal · February 20, 1968
- STEVEN HERNANDEZSpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
- DONALD LEE HERNDONSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID RUSSELL BOSWORTHSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 36
- NICHOLAS PAUL LIGAMMARISpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 43
From Levittown
- JOSEPH PAUL YATSKO JRFirst Lieutenant · December 18, 1965
- JOHN WILLIAM THOMASSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- ALAN ROBERT SCHULTZLance Corporal · August 11, 1967
- PATRICK ROBERT ROYPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- THEODORE K KALEIKINI JRSergeant · January 18, 1968
- DENNIS THOMAS CUNNANEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKISpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DEENY IIIPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- ARTHUR MICHAEL DAYSpecialist Five · May 8, 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.