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JAMES WESLEY CANTRELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 2, 1940 – November 15, 1966
Service recordJames Wesley Cantrell, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 537 TRANS 1 LOG MARDIV
- Born
- August 2, 1940
- Home of record
- Spartanburg, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 15, 1966
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 73
- JOSEPH RODNEY CRAFTLance Corporal · November 15, 1966
- JOSEPH ALEXANDER CROSSPrivate First Class · November 15, 1966
- JIMMY SHERMAN DAFFRONLance Corporal · November 15, 1966
- WALTER EUGENE DANIELSStaff Sergeant · November 15, 1966
From Spartanburg
- THOMAS RICE JRSpecialist Four · December 28, 1965
- DONALD THOMAS MITCHELLSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- CHARLES BENJAMIN NORRISSergeant · April 21, 1966
- FRED HAROLD STILLPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- JERRY DEAN WORTHYSpecialist Four · February 1, 1967
- LEYBURN W BROCKWELL JRLieutenant Colonel · May 1, 1967
- JAMES EDWIN WOODLance Corporal · June 2, 1967
- JIMMIE LEWISPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- GAREY LEE HENSLEYSpecialist Four · September 15, 1967
- ERNEST LINWOOD JACOBS JRCorporal · February 4, 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.