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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Michael Feeney.

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JOSEPH MICHAEL FEENEY

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

July 22, 1949 – October 10, 1971

Service record

Joseph Michael Feeney, of Riverton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 10, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 36

Position of Panel 2W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
July 22, 1949
Home of record
Riverton, New Jersey (Burlington County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 10, 1971
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1971; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 36

Same unit, same day

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.