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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Adam Anthony Fontana.

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ADAM ANTHONY FONTANA

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

November 26, 1914 – May 10, 1968

Service record

Adam Anthony Fontana, of Atlas, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 53. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 58E · Line 7

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
November 26, 1914
Home of record
Atlas, Pennsylvania (Northumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 10, 1968
Age
53
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

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What was happening

72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 58E, Line 7

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.