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RONALD EUGENE JAMES
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 4, 1947 – November 30, 1968
Service recordRonald Eugene James, of El Cerrito, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 12
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
- July 4, 1947
- Home of record
- El Cerrito, California (Contra Costa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 12
- JERRY WAYNE JEFFERSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- JAMES KENNEDYPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- ROGER RAY KERNSPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- JOSEPH KRESIC JRPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES HAYES HALLCorporal · Panel 37W, Line 11
From El Cerrito
- DAVID ALAN HENRYLieutenant (junior grade) · September 19, 1966
- DAVID MIDDLEKAUFFSergeant · December 24, 1967
- CLYDE LAWRENCE DEMELLOCorporal · February 9, 1968
- BERNARD PAUL BREITENBACHSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- DONALD HAROLD PRATERSpecialist Four · July 5, 1970
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.