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DELLWYN ALLEN FITCH
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 25, 1948 – April 11, 1968
Service recordDellwyn Allen Fitch, of Perham, Maine, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 21
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M1 Abrams Tank System Mechanic (63E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Perham, Maine (Aroostook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 21
- EDWARD JOSEPH DOWNEY JRPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- RICHARD EUGENE ERWINPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- CHARLES RICHARD FINLEYPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- LAWRENCE LEE FULLAWAYSpecialist Five · April 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ANDREW HOGGATTPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 22
- WILLIAM LLOYD KINNARDPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 23
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.