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JOHN PHILLIP FEWELL JR
Captain · U.S. Army
July 25, 1939 – January 28, 1966
Service recordJohn Phillip Fewell JR, of Kokomo, Indiana, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on January 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 102
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 25, 1939
- Home of record
- Kokomo, Indiana (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1966
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 102
- WILBUR MEARL WISEPrivate · January 27, 1966
- EWING COTTRELL BABBAGEPrivate First Class · January 28, 1966
- THOMAS ROGER DEVLINSpecialist Four · January 28, 1966
- WILLIAM CHARLES GEISPrivate First Class · January 28, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JONATHAN P WORKSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 4E, Line 105
From Kokomo
- DOUGLAS ARTHUR CLESTERCorporal · June 12, 1966
- JERRY LOUIS SPICERStaff Sergeant · February 3, 1967
- BRUCE ALLEN YODERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RONNIE M SNIDERSergeant · August 11, 1967
- LARRY STEPHEN NEWBURNCorporal · August 29, 1967
- STEVEN THOMAS RUNYONLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- LESLIE DAVID MATCHETTSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- RAYMOND BROWNSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES FOUSTSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD WALTERSSpecialist Four · April 15, 1968
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.