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DAVID R FISHER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 19, 1946 – April 10, 1967
Service recordDavid R Fisher, of Lebanon, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Journalist (71Q)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Indiana (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1967; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 9
- CHRISTOPHER CRONKHITEPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
- JAMES HERBERT EDWARDSSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- JAMES WILBUR FOSTERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
- EARL RUSSELL GROVESpecialist Four · April 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES HERBERT EDWARDSSpecialist Five · Panel 18E, Line 9
- JAMES WESLEY HINTZSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 10
- RONALD LEE JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 10
- JOSEPH P KRAMERSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 10
From Lebanon
- ROBERT LEE REYNOLDS JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1966
- ROBERT EUGENE VEACHLance Corporal · June 19, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE HEFFNERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID HALECorporal · August 18, 1968
- RICHARD CRAIG STEVENSSpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- STANLEY MELVIN CLINGLERPrivate First Class · March 26, 1969
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.