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DAVID KENT FELLER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 28, 1945 – April 30, 1968
Service recordDavid Kent Feller, of Maplewood, Louisiana, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander (1204)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- August 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Maplewood, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 12
- MICHAEL RONELL DIGGSLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN ENEDYSergeant · April 30, 1968
- PHILIP GILBERT FRANKLINPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- CHARLES LEE FRISBYStaff Sergeant · April 30, 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.