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JAMES WILLIAM ALLEN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 28, 1945 – April 23, 1968
Service recordJames William Allen, of Ashland, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 23, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 35
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Ashland, Kentucky (Boyd County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 23, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 35
- DANIEL EDWARD WOLFECorporal · April 22, 1968
- THOMAS SAMUEL ALFREDPrivate · April 23, 1968
- ARTHUR WYMAN BALLPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1968
- WILLIAM GERALD BANEY JRSpecialist Five · April 23, 1968
From Ashland
- CHARLES DONALD SENTERSPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- JAMES LEONARD FAINSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- BOBBY SENTERSStaff Sergeant · June 20, 1966
- WILLIAM CLIFFORD FRALEYSergeant First Class · July 6, 1966
- LAWRENCE EDWARD LEWISAirman First Class · May 12, 1967
- CARL PHILIP MCCORMICKSergeant · November 5, 1967
- ARTHUR JACKSON SANDERSStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1967
- JOSEPH BRUCE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
- DOUGLAS FRANKLIN LOUDENBACKPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- KENNETH RAY NEWSOMELance Corporal · May 6, 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.