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JIM CAREY PAGE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 27, 1938 – July 8, 1969
Service recordJim Carey Page, of Oakridge, Oregon, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 85
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signal Intelligence Analyst (Linguist) (98C)
- Born
- May 27, 1938
- Home of record
- Oakridge, Oregon (Lane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1969
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 85
- ROBERT WALKER PETERSONSpecialist Four · July 8, 1969
- HERBERT LEE PHELPSSergeant · July 8, 1969
- JOHN SHEPARD REAVES JRSergeant · July 8, 1969
- RUSSELL ALBERT SCHWARTZSpecialist Four · July 8, 1969
From Oakridge
- MAXIMO YABESFirst Sergeant · February 26, 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.