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ARTHUR FOXWORTH
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 17, 1940 – October 28, 1969
Service recordArthur Foxworth, of Newton, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 127
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Newton, New Jersey (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 127
- ERLE FLETCHER DAVISStaff Sergeant · October 28, 1969
- BILLY WAYNE DENLEYSpecialist Four · October 28, 1969
- CHARLES F GAMBLE JRSpecialist Four · October 28, 1969
- WALTER MURRAH GIBSONFirst Lieutenant · October 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ERLE FLETCHER DAVISStaff Sergeant · Panel 17W, Line 127
From Newton
- DONALD WILLIAM DRAKEPrivate First Class · December 31, 1966
- ARTHUR CLARENCE SISCO JRSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- HOWARD STANLEY BIESANTZPrivate · February 23, 1969
- LEON FREDERICK HAASLieutenant · July 17, 1972
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.