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JAMES WILLARD POWERS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 29, 1946 – April 29, 1968
Service recordJames Willard Powers JR, of Loyalhanna, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 6
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- September 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Loyalhanna, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 6
- LLOYD WILLIAM PEELE JRStaff Sergeant · April 29, 1968
- WILLARD ALTON PERRY JRCorporal · April 29, 1968
- WALTER GLENN POPEPetty Officer First Class · April 29, 1968
- STEPHEN ROBERT WHITECorporal · April 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD HENASEYPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 1
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.