The Wall › Panel 12E › Arizona › Fred Melvin Pennington
FRED MELVIN PENNINGTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1946 – November 15, 1966
Service recordFred Melvin Pennington, of Tucson, Arizona, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 75
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 2 BN 8 INF 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Tucson, Arizona (Pima County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 15, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 75
- EDWARD ARTHUR MCWRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 15, 1966
- CHARLES G OBERLESpecialist Five · November 15, 1966
- EDDIE DONALD PEOPLESPrivate First Class · November 15, 1966
- JIMMIE LEON PLATOHospitalman · November 15, 1966
From Tucson
- JAMES ATLEE WHEELERCaptain · April 18, 1965
- VICTOR BRUCE KELLEYCaptain · April 28, 1965
- JOHN PATRICK BURNSPrivate First Class · July 7, 1965
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM JORDANLance Corporal · July 30, 1965
- MAX DUANE LUKENBACHCommander · December 22, 1965
- BOB CLARENCE HUNT JRSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- CLYDE L NORVELLE JRWarrant Officer 1 · March 30, 1966
- JAMES RILEY HOWELLCorporal · May 12, 1966
- DAVID WILLIAM JOHNSTONPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- WARREN ORISON KNEPPER JRSergeant · June 24, 1966
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.