LEDBETTER-JAMES
JAMES RILEY LEDBETTER
Deceased
03/12/1968
Rate/Rank
HN (FMF)
HN (FMF)
Service Branch
USN 00/0000 - 3/1968
Born
09/17/1946
LEBANON, MO
KILLED IN ACTION - FRAGMENTATION DEVICE 03/04/1968, QUANG NAM PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM - DIED OF WOUNDS, 03/12/1968
H&S CO, 2ND BN, 3RD MARINES, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
PURPLE HEART
COMBAT ACTION RIBBON
NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL * VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL W/STAR
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL
James was assigned as a corpsman to Golf Company,2nd Battalion,3rd Marine Division.He was wounded March 4 as a result of multiple fragmentation wounds to the body,during a patrol engagement with enemy forces,10 kilometers east southeast of Phu Loc,while participating in Operation Houston. Due to the severity of his wounds he was sent to the US Air Force Hospital in Tachikawa, Japan,where he died March 12, 1968