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FORREST F S SPITLER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 3, 1925 – February 25, 1968
Service recordForrest F S Spitler, of Newport News, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 25, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 30
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Repairer (31E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- March 3, 1925
- Home of record
- Newport News, Virginia (Newport News (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 42
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 30
- WALTER FRANCIS SKINNERPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- DOUGLAS WAYNE SMITHPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JOHN RAYMOND STEVENSONSpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
- SIDNEY TAYLOR STRATTONPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ARTHUR GIBSONPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 20
From Newport News
- ROBERT ALEXANDER WHITESpecialist Four · February 7, 1966
- ROBERT DECKER PERDUEPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
- JOSEPH LUTHER ROBINSONSpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- FREDERICK ALBERT SLEMPLieutenant · February 24, 1966
- ROBERT LEE SMITH JRLance Corporal · March 4, 1966
- CLEVELAND VINESCorporal · May 21, 1966
- DONALD ROBERTS ASHBY SRLieutenant Commander · January 19, 1967
- ALEXANDER VIDALESMaster Sergeant · February 22, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD MURRAYSergeant · March 4, 1967
- JAMES MILES BRANDON JRPrivate First Class · March 17, 1967
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.