James Patrick McGrath

Vietnam War
Unit3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
RankHospital Corpsman U.S. Navy
Entered Service FromChicago Illinois
Date of DeathAugust 3 1967
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Hospital Corpsman McGrath was assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. On August 3, 1967, he was a passenger a Boeing Sea Knight Cargo Helicopter (CH-46A) being extracted from a firefight in A Shau Valley, South Vietnam when the helicopter was hit by a bazooka and crashed. His remains were recovered on June 8, 1994 and identified on July 10, 2001. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.