James Bennett Conway

Vietnam War
Unit5th Special Forces Group
RankMajor U.S. Army
Entered Service FromFranklin Tennessee
Date of DeathApril 12 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Major Conway was a member of Detachment A-253, Company B, 5th Special Forces Group. On April 12, 1966, he was in a patrol on combat reconnaissance on the extreme southern edge of Kontum Province near the Se San River in South Vietnam. Following a firefight Major Conway was missing. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.