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JAMES WALTER GATES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 13, 1942 – August 20, 1968
Service recordJames Walter Gates, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 13, 1942
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 8
- SAMUEL ARTHUR FEWFirst Lieutenant · August 20, 1968
- LOUIS ELLIE GAUPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
- ISREAL GIBBSPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
- MICHAEL RAY GOINSPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD DUANE GOLDENSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 7
- SAMUEL ARTHUR FEWFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47W, Line 8
- JEROME EDDIE WALLY JANSENSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 9
- DONALD EUGENE LISENBYSergeant First Class · Panel 47W, Line 10
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.