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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James William Castor.

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JAMES WILLIAM CASTOR

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 24, 1948 – August 13, 1969

Service record

James William Castor, of Natoma, Kansas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 13, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 19W · Line 29

Position of Panel 19W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
September 24, 1948
Home of record
Natoma, Kansas (Osborne County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 13, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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43 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 19W, Line 29

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.