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JOSEPH DAVID FOURNIER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 7, 1950 – June 17, 1969
Service recordJoseph David Fournier, of Van Buren, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 17, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 64
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Van Buren, Maine (Aroostook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1969; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 64
- MICHAEL DAVID DAWSONLance Corporal · June 17, 1969
- LEON TIMOTHY DUNCANPrivate · June 17, 1969
- EDWARD JOSEPH EDMUNDLance Corporal · June 17, 1969
- JOHN ALFRED FELSHERPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
From Van Buren
- J B L LEVESQUEColonel · March 26, 1969
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.