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Pfc James C. Fargo III joined the Regular Army Reserve in New Haven, Connecticut on 22 July 1943.

He graduated summa cum laude in 1943 with honors in Greek, Latin and Mathematics. He also was awarded the Oakes Prize in Greek and the Drumm Prize in Latin. He played on the Delphian football team, on his second club hockey team and he was on the third Shattuk crew. Particulary talented as an actor, he took a leading part in the plays produced by the Dramatic Club in his Fourth and Fifth Form Years. He was a member of numerous other school organizations including the "Pictorial", the Library Association and the Cadmean Literary Society. He had a very keen mind. Jim entered Yale before he was eighteen in July, 1943, and during the one term he was there he ranked in the top seven percent of his class and placed on the Dean's List. He entered the Army in November, 1943. After training at Fort Benning he was assigned the A.S.T.P., but when the program was abandoned he was sent in March, 1944, to Camp Livingston, Louisiana, as a private in an Infantry unit, with which he went overseas in September, 1944. In England he was reassigned to the First Army, 1st Division, 18th Infantry, Company E, a unit containing veterans who had fought all the way through Tunisia, Sicily, D-Day and northern France. With them he traveled across France, part of the way in "40 and 8's". In October he was in Germany and was in action before the end of that month. On November 23, at the age of 19, James Fargo was killed in action in the Hürtgen Forest.