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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James William McGuire.

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JAMES WILLIAM MCGUIRE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 15, 1949 – April 29, 1970

Service record

James William McGuire, of Cucamonga, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 69

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 15, 1949
Home of record
Cucamonga, California (San Bernardino County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1970
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1970; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 69

Same unit, same day

From Cucamonga

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.