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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Honorio Moran Fidel JR.

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HONORIO MORAN FIDEL JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

May 26, 1942 – August 9, 1967

Service record

Honorio Moran Fidel JR, of Stockton, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 94

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
7 BN 13 ARTY 41 ARTY GRP
Born
May 26, 1942
Home of record
Stockton, California (San Joaquin County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 9, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 94

From Stockton

All 53 names from Stockton →

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.