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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Robert Fischer.

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JAMES ROBERT FISCHER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 26, 1946 – July 23, 1967

Service record

James Robert Fischer, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 23, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 110

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
April 26, 1946
Home of record
Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 23, 1967
Age
21
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date July 23, 1967; 22 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 110

Same unit, same day

From Oshkosh

All 21 names from Oshkosh →

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.