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JAMES WILLIAM WINKLES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 6, 1949 – June 29, 1968
Service recordJames William Winkles, of Bremen, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 29, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 21
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Bremen, Georgia (Haralson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date June 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 21
- DAVID LEE VOYTKOPrivate First Class · June 29, 1968
- DAVID EARL WAFERPrivate First Class · June 29, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE YARBERLance Corporal · June 29, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM YOUNGPrivate First Class · June 29, 1968
From Bremen
- MARK EVERETT JAMESLance Corporal · February 15, 1968
- CHARLIE JUNIOR DOMINICKPrivate First Class · July 17, 1968
- FOREST DENVER JOHNSON JRCorporal · October 12, 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.