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JAMES FRANCIS FUHRMAN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 14, 1945 – January 4, 1968
Service recordJames Francis Fuhrman, of Larslan, Montana, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 36
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Light Air Defense Artillery Unit Commander (1174)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B BTRY 5 BN 2 ARTY II FF
- Born
- August 14, 1945
- Home of record
- Larslan, Montana (Valley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B BTRY 5 BN 2 ARTY II FF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 36
- RICHARD HAMMOND FROSTLance Corporal · January 4, 1968
- MEREDITH ALTON GABRIELSergeant · January 4, 1968
- BILLY WILLIE GOBERSpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
- ROGER DALE GRIFFITHSpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NATHANIEL ROBERT ROSESergeant · Panel 33E, Line 41
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.