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JOHN ANTHONY FERA
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 16, 1944 – March 18, 1968
Service recordJohn Anthony Fera, of Danvers, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 20
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 16, 1944
- Home of record
- Danvers, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45E, Line 20
- FRANK CESARE DEUSEBIOFirst Lieutenant · March 18, 1968
- EDWARD ALLEN DEVORE JRSpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
- THOMAS WAYNE DUKESpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
- ROY LEE ESTRADASergeant · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES DAVID BARRCorporal · Panel 45E, Line 17
- WILLIAM EARL COFRANSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 19
- TOMMY DARRELL MABESergeant · Panel 45E, Line 24
- CARL LEE MERCHANTSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 25
- CLINTON CARL WUSTERBARTHCorporal · Panel 45E, Line 32
From Danvers
- GORDON WARREN RUSSELLPrivate First Class · February 1, 1967
- PETER ALBERTPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
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.