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FELIX DELANO KNUTSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 6, 1940 – September 4, 1969
Service recordFelix Delano Knutson, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 4, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 33
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 6, 1940
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 4, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 33
- WALTER EUGENE HUTCHINSONSergeant · September 4, 1969
- JAMES MARION KARDOSPrivate First Class · September 4, 1969
- GEORGE L KLEIBER JRFirst Lieutenant · September 4, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD KLINGENFirst Lieutenant · September 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CLIFFORD JOHN CONSTANTINOSpecialist Four · Panel 18W, Line 31
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.