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HOWARD KIM FITZGERALD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 18, 1948 – March 23, 1969
Service recordHoward Kim Fitzgerald, of Draper, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 18
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Draper, Utah (Salt Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 18
- STEVEN ALLEN BELLLance Corporal · March 23, 1969
- LARRY JAMES CONKLINSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- MICHAEL ARTHUR GEHLSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- ROBERT CHARLES DAVISMajor · May 2, 1975
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS MICHAEL STRUCHENSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 22
From Draper
- BRIAN FIZTGERALD CARLQUISTPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
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.