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DENNIS WAYNE FISHER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 1, 1949 – December 29, 1968
Service recordDennis Wayne Fisher, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 4
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Equipment Maintenance Clerk (71T)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Jacksonville, Arkansas (Pulaski County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 4
- EUGENE FELTS JRPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY HAUPT IIILance Corporal · December 29, 1968
- CARL RODMAN HINKLESpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
- DAN NINKEY JAMESSpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID PAUL NASHPrivate First Class · Panel 35W, Line 6
From Jacksonville
- RICHARD DWAINE STOCKERPetty Officer Third Class · May 26, 1966
- MARION RAY HUTCHINSPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- WALTER JOHN LYONSSecond Lieutenant · June 15, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD HOLTCorporal · February 5, 1968
- PAUL SHIREMAN JRPrivate First Class · July 29, 1968
- EDWARD WILSON GRIFFITHCaptain · May 11, 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.