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GARRISON DAVID FIELDS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 21, 1949 – September 13, 1970
Service recordGarrison David Fields, of Lafayette, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1970, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 61
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- August 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Indiana (Tippecanoe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1970; two of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 61
- DENNIS LEE DAVESSergeant · September 13, 1970
- DANIEL RICHARD FENNSpecialist Four · September 13, 1970
- DENNIS WAYNE GENTRYSergeant · September 13, 1970
- DANIEL MACOM HEDGESPrivate First Class · September 13, 1970
Same unit, same day
- WYATT MILLER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 7W, Line 62
- HAROLD RAY SPILLMANSergeant · Panel 7W, Line 62
From Lafayette
- ROBERT LEE MANNCaptain · October 22, 1965
- JAMES DARRYL BASHAMPrivate First Class · September 7, 1966
- CHARLES ALLEN KNOCHELLieutenant · September 22, 1966
- ROBERT JOE HARDESTYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1966
- DAVID LEROY HOWARDPrivate First Class · September 14, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBERT JENNETTSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- THOMAS HAROLD NERINIPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- RANDELL HOOD LOYSpecialist Four · September 4, 1968
- STEVEN RANDALL BROOKSLance Corporal · September 13, 1968
- DOYLE EUGENE SALLEECorporal · November 12, 1968
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.