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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Harvey Feezer.

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JOHN HARVEY FEEZER

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

March 3, 1947 – July 14, 1968

Service record

John Harvey Feezer, of Marriottsville, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 52W · Line 28

Position of Panel 52W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Recovery Specialist (63F)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 14 ENG BN 18 ENG BDE
Born
March 3, 1947
Home of record
Marriottsville, Maryland (Howard County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 14, 1968
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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36 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 52W, Line 28

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.