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CLIFFORD WAYNE FIESZEL
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
October 23, 1937 – September 30, 1968
Service recordClifford Wayne Fieszel, of Lubbock, Texas, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on September 30, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 47
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 333 TFS SQ
- Born
- October 23, 1937
- Home of record
- Lubbock, Texas (Lubbock County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 30, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1968. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42W, Line 47
- ULYS FORD HAMILTONPrivate First Class · September 30, 1968
- ALBERTO HERNANDEZ-VELEZPrivate First Class · September 30, 1968
- CHARLES ALLEN HOLBROOKPrivate First Class · September 30, 1968
- JERRY JONESPrivate First Class · September 30, 1968
From Lubbock
- CHARLES DON WITTLieutenant · May 24, 1967
- WAYLEN LEE POWELLSpecialist Four · July 4, 1967
- JACK ALBERT BERRYLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- JOE LOVATO JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- JOSE LOUIS MORENOPrivate First Class · November 29, 1967
- WADE E THACKREY JRCorporal · February 15, 1968
- FREDRIC CECIL MCCASKILLPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- RAYMOND MARSHALL TANNERSpecialist Five · October 27, 1968
- JAMES SAMUEL ALLISONPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
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.