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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory Scott Fennimore.

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GREGORY SCOTT FENNIMORE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 23, 1947 – November 20, 1967

Service record

Gregory Scott Fennimore, of Elwood, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 41

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 23, 1947
Home of record
Elwood, Indiana (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 20, 1967
Age
19
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

79 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Elwood

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.