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JIM CARL MCNAMAR
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
September 16, 1945 – April 17, 1968
Service recordJim Carl McNamar, of Mountain Home, Idaho, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 32
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 16, 1945
- Home of record
- Mountain Home, Idaho (Elmore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 17, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 32
- WILLIAM AUBREY LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · April 17, 1968
- KENNETH ALLEN MCCLAINLance Corporal · April 17, 1968
- JOSEPH WILLIAM MULLEN JRLance Corporal · April 17, 1968
- WILLIAM PATRICK OFARRELLPrivate First Class · April 17, 1968
From Mountain Home
- ROBERT GENE YAGUESPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- MICHAEL LEE MCMASTERCorporal · June 27, 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.