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JAMES OSCAR FEEMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 6, 1946 – February 16, 1968
Service recordJames Oscar Feeman, of Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 58
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania (Blair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 58
- KENNY LAWRENCE COLTERPrivate · February 16, 1968
- KEITH DAVID ED WILL COONPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- DONALD WAYNE DIXONPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- STEVEN ERIC EMRICKLance Corporal · February 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES E ANDERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 57
- DONALD WAYNE DIXONPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 58
- HAROLD PAUL GRAYSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 60
- BARRY N GRIGSBYPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 60
- GEORGE GERALD LESCARBEAUSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 62
From Roaring Spring
- GLENN FRANKLIN DRAKEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1966
- GERALD WILFORD HEUSTONSergeant First Class · March 14, 1966
- MICHAEL LEE WERTMANCorporal · April 5, 1969
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.