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JAMES CHARLES FEKETE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 30, 1936 – June 15, 1967
Service recordJames Charles Fekete, of Huron, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 104
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- October 30, 1936
- Home of record
- Huron, Ohio (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1967
- Age
- 30
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 104
- MICHAEL O CROSSENLance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- WILLIE DAVIS JRSergeant · June 15, 1967
- JOE ROBERT DEBAULTStaff Sergeant · June 15, 1967
- DAVID JERRELL ENMONSpecialist Four · June 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BEN DAVID SNOWDENMaster Sergeant · Panel 21E, Line 108
- HUBERT CLARENCE VANPOLLStaff Sergeant · Panel 21E, Line 110
From Huron
- THEODORE DAVISON WARDSergeant · May 8, 1969
- TERRANCE R MESENBURGSergeant · June 6, 1969
- GREGG WILLIAM HEIDRICHPrivate First Class · September 21, 1969
- JAMES CHARLES BAUMERFireman · January 21, 1970
- DAVID MASON SEXTONSergeant · March 15, 1971
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.