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JOHN W FITZGERALD JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 21, 1937 – December 13, 1967
Service recordJohn W Fitzgerald JR, of Louisville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 87
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 21, 1937
- Home of record
- Louisville, Kentucky (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1967
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 87
- JOHN EDWARD DAVISPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- CALVIN DONALD DAWKINSCorporal · December 13, 1967
- PAUL GEORGE HAMILTON JRPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- LLOYD LYNN HITCHINSSecond Lieutenant · December 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL CARTERStaff Sergeant · Panel 31E, Line 86
- LUIS MANUEL MARQUEZ-LOPEZSergeant First Class · Panel 31E, Line 88
From Louisville
- FERGUS COLEMAN GROVES IICaptain · February 2, 1962
- ROBERT SHERMAN MOSIERSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- DON IRA WILLIAMSONColonel · October 24, 1964
- DONALD GORDON RADCLIFFMajor · August 18, 1965
- LEE ROY JAMESGunnery Sergeant · September 5, 1965
- JERRY DWAYNE UNDERWOODPrivate First Class · September 18, 1965
- GARY LOUIS DOWELLCorporal · October 27, 1965
- THOMAS EDWARD THAYER JRSergeant Major · November 8, 1965
- BOBBY LEE FAVORSSergeant · February 4, 1966
- KENNETH RUSHPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
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.