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GLEN ALAN FIESTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 27, 1951 – September 8, 1970
Service recordGlen Alan Fiester, of Park Ridge, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 8, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 46
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 27, 1951
- Home of record
- Park Ridge, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 8, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 46
- DAVID HARVEY BRADYCorporal · September 8, 1970
- DAVID LEE CONLEYPrivate · September 8, 1970
- THOMAS CHARLES LARSENSpecialist Four · September 8, 1970
- KENNETH JOE NOLENPrivate First Class · September 8, 1970
From Park Ridge
- ROBERT C BOICOURTSpecialist Four · June 22, 1966
- ALLEN GEORGE FRENCHLance Corporal · August 15, 1966
- THOMAS ANTHONY GRUDFirst Lieutenant · December 25, 1967
- BRUCE JONATHAN ROTHLance Corporal · December 29, 1967
- BRIAN JOHN MATHISONLieutenant (junior grade) · April 1, 1968
- RICHARD DENNIS KOSARSergeant · May 10, 1968
- JAMES ALLAN DONAHUECorporal · August 22, 1970
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.