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JAMES WILBUR FOSTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 31, 1947 – April 10, 1967
Service recordJames Wilbur Foster, of Scappoose, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Scappoose, Oregon (Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 9
- CHRISTOPHER CRONKHITEPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
- JAMES HERBERT EDWARDSSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- DAVID R FISHERSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- EARL RUSSELL GROVESpecialist Four · April 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EARL RUSSELL GROVESpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 9
- CHARLES J HOFFMANN IIISpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 10
From Scappoose
- STEPHEN WOODTHORPE MAYNELance Corporal · January 17, 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.