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ELMER EUGENE FIELDS
Private · U.S. Army
September 9, 1948 – May 24, 1969
Service recordElmer Eugene Fields, of Fairfax, Oklahoma, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 94
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 (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 19 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- September 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Fairfax, Oklahoma (Osage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 94
- BENJAMIN RUBEN MONTANOSpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- CARL DEYNEKAPrivate First Class · May 24, 1969
- HARLEY DANIEL DIMICKSpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
- MARK WILLIAM FENNERSpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
- JOHN ALOYSIUS GILLENSpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MARK WILLIAM FENNERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 94
- DAVID ALLEN HARGENSPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 95
- GARY ARNOLD NEAVORSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 97
- STANLEY TURNERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 99
From Fairfax
- CLIFFORD CURTIS JOHNSONChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 29, 1966
- DARRELL WAYNE COWANSpecialist Four · February 2, 1971
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.