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HERMAN THURSTON FIELDS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 6, 1949 – August 14, 1969
Service recordHerman Thurston Fields, of Winterville, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 38
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Winterville, Georgia (Clarke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1969; four of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 19W, Line 38
- THOMAS LEE FOWLERSergeant · August 14, 1969
- KENNETH GLEN GOODNESSPrivate First Class · August 14, 1969
- MELVIN LEE GRANTWarrant Officer 1 · August 14, 1969
- JOHN STANLEY HALLPrivate First Class · August 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT STEVENS MITCHELLPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 40
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.