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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: PFC James Marion Kardos
Additional Description: D Co., 3rd BN, 1st Infantry, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, USARV, United States Army.

April 07, 1949 to September 04, 1969

Jimmy lived his entire life a few blocks from this memorial. Among his many friends were Jim Carpenter, Buster Ruggles and his girlfriend Adele Marshall. In 1968 he graduated from Lane High School. September 4, 1969, while on patrol 10 kilometers west northwest of Quang Ngai Airfield, a command detonated landmine was triggered, and Jimmie Kardos was killed. He had been in Vietnam twenty days.

Private First Class Kardos was awarded the Purple Heart Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Jimmie is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville, VA.
Submitted: April 15, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p380266
File Size: 1.425 Megabytes

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