Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device and Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 9-Apr-1949
Hometown: Hull, Massachusetts
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 7-Jun-1966
Start of tour: 21-Jul-1969
Incident date: 14-May-1970
Date of casualty: 14-May-1970
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Unknown. Other causes.
James Charles Daigle was killed while commander of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Track commander on M-48 tank on reconnaissance mission. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Richard Savage Cunningham
SSG James Charles Daigle
Location of fatality: Cambodia, XU 785 395
Place of interment: Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
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