JAMES O ASHTON
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HONORED ON PANEL 58W, LINE 1 OF THE WALL

JAMES ODELL ASHTON

WALL NAME

JAMES O ASHTON

PANEL / LINE

58W/1

DATE OF BIRTH

08/25/1946

CASUALTY PROVINCE

KONTUM

DATE OF CASUALTY

06/08/1968

HOME OF RECORD

BURAS

COUNTY OF RECORD

Plaquemines Parish

STATE

LA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

PFC

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Contact Details

REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JAMES ODELL ASHTON
POSTED ON 5.13.2025
POSTED BY: Lynet Cutts

My mother spoke so very highly of you

James Odell Ashton married my mother on April 30, 1968, deployed May 15, 1968 and was killed in battle on June 8, 1968. She always spoke highly of him and said that he wanted to make sure she was taken of if something happened to him while in battle. Unfortunately, he was taken from her way too soon. Thank you, sir, for your service for our country. My mother made sure we knew the price you paid.
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POSTED ON 8.25.2024
POSTED BY: ANON

On your birthday

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH
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POSTED ON 8.20.2023
POSTED BY: ANON

77

Never forgotten.

HOOAH
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POSTED ON 12.18.2022

Final Mission of PFC James O. Ashton

SGT Ronald E. Forget was a Radio Operator serving with Headquarters & Headquarters Company (HHC), 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. Forget worked in the 3/8th Tactical Operations Center at Dak To coordinating daily infantry and artillery operations. In early June 1968, Forget travelled to Pleiku. On June 8, 1968, he checked in with the 4th Aviation Battalion Pathfinder Detachment at Pleiku Heliport to organize transportation back to his unit. The Pathfinder put him on a helicopter to Kontum instead of Dak To. When Forget arrived at Kontum, he was presented with the option of waiting until the next day to catch the next flight to Dak To; instead, Forget opted to hitch a ride with a convoy to Dak To that afternoon. While enroute, the convoy was ambushed on National Route QL-14, nine miles north of Kontum city in Kontum Province, RVN. During the ensuing firefight, Forget was fatally wounded in the head. Two other 4th Infantry Division personnel were killed in the ambush: SP4 Arturo S. Rodriguez, a communications specialist from C Company, 124th Signal Battalion; and mechanic PFC James O. Ashton from C Battery, 5th Battalion, 16th Artillery. Ashton had only been in Vietnam three weeks at the time of his death. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Ray Lussier (November 1998) at members.tripod.com]
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POSTED ON 8.25.2022
POSTED BY: Dennis Wriston

I'm Proud of Our Vietnam Veterans

Private First Class James O'dell Ashton, Served with Battery C, 5th Battalion, 16th Artillery Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, United States Army Vietnam.
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