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JAMES WILSON HARTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 16, 1947 – May 12, 1969
Service recordJames Wilson Harter, of Dexter, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 70
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 31 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- May 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Dexter, Michigan (Washtenaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 31 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 70
- DENNIS MICHAEL GUILMETTEStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1969
- MARLOYE KEITH HALGRIMSONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- CURTIS LEVENCE HARDINPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- JAMES ROY HARRISONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ALVIN WHITBYSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 91
From Dexter
- ROBERT CLARENCE MARVINLieutenant · February 14, 1967
- ROY LEE BRANHAMPrivate First Class · May 11, 1967
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.