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JAMES WAYNE CHAMBERS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 26, 1942 – September 17, 1967
Service recordJames Wayne Chambers, of Union City, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 81
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1942
- Home of record
- Union City, Tennessee (Obion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 81
- LAWRENCE JEFFREY WOODSergeant · September 16, 1967
- WILLIAM RUSSELL YOUNG JRCorporal · September 16, 1967
- NICHOLAS EDWARD BRUZNACKSpecialist Six · September 17, 1967
- BENNY GILLIS CARRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BENNY GILLIS CARRPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 81
- ERVIN LEE CONDREAYPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 82
- WALTER EUGENE ELLISPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 83
From Union City
- JAMES WILFORD COLLINSPrivate First Class · July 27, 1966
- RICHARD CLIVE LANNOMLieutenant · March 1, 1968
- ROBERT LEWIS TREVATHANPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- JERRY LYNN ANDREWSPrivate First Class · May 11, 1968
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.