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JAMES WARREN CAHALL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 8, 1946 – January 15, 1967
Service recordJames Warren Cahall, of Mexico, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Mexico, Missouri (Audrain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 32
- NATHANIEL BULLOCKPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- ERNEST WOODY CADELL JRPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- JAMES GRANT CALLENCorporal · January 15, 1967
- HAROLD LLOYD MONTANAPlatoon Sergeant · January 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- NATHANIEL BULLOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 32
- DAVID LEE MILESPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 36
- ARTHUR DOUGLAS WASHINGTONSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 39
From Mexico
- JERRY LEE GRAVESCorporal · July 28, 1968
- CLAIR LLOYD WESTLAKE JRPrivate First Class · January 1, 1969
- MICHAEL ALAN LEDERLESergeant · January 24, 1969
- ALFRED HENRY SUHRLieutenant (junior grade) · March 26, 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.