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GUY VICTOR FEARN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 26, 1950 – May 12, 1971
Service recordGuy Victor Fearn, of Fredericktown, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 33
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1950
- Home of record
- Fredericktown, Ohio (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 33
- NATHAN LARRY LEESpecialist Four · May 11, 1971
- JAMES LEWIS SHEFFPrivate First Class · May 11, 1971
- JAMES RICHARD COOPERSpecialist Four · May 12, 1971
- EDELMIRO LEONEL GARCIA SRSpecialist Five · May 12, 1971
- ALLAN LOMBARD DUNNING JREnsign · October 19, 1973
From Fredericktown
- HARLAN NATHANIEL LOCKHARTSergeant · November 9, 1966
- WILLIAM LAWRENCE MCMAHONSergeant · February 19, 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.