Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, 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: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 13-Aug-1948
Hometown: Arthur, Tennessee
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-Jun-1968
Start of tour: 6-Dec-1968
Incident date: 29-Apr-1969
Date of casualty: 29-Apr-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
James Walter Tuttle was killed while gunner on a military vehicle on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / Gunner on Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Roy Lollis Lipscomb
SP4 Clinton William Shaver Jr
SP4 James Walter Tuttle
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 500 802
Place of interment: Shoffner Cemetery, Harrogate, Tennessee, USA
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