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JAMES WESLEY ASHBY
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 2, 1944 – June 1, 1967
Service recordJames Wesley Ashby, of Park Rapids, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 1, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 25
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- April 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Park Rapids, Minnesota (Hubbard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 1, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 25
- GARY PAUL STEFFUSPrivate First Class · May 31, 1967
- JERALD ANTHONY VOKISHPrivate First Class · May 31, 1967
- PAUL DOUGLAS WILLIAMSONSpecialist Four · May 31, 1967
- FRANCIS LOREN ARBPrivate First Class · June 1, 1967
From Park Rapids
- DONALD CARL GREENSpecialist Four · May 31, 1966
- GARY LEE REHNCorporal · November 9, 1967
- VINCENT LLOYD SHEPERSKYSpecialist Four · August 14, 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.