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JOSEPH PETER FANNING
Major · U.S. Air Force
June 25, 1944 – December 13, 1968
Service recordJoseph Peter Fanning, of Long Island City, New York, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on December 13, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 15
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1051A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 606 SOP SQ 56 SOP WG
- Born
- June 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Long Island City, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 13, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1968. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “606 SOP SQ 56 SOP WG”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36W, Line 15
- THOMAS CHARLES ELDRIDGEPetty Officer Second Class · December 13, 1968
- LEON ROY FIELDSergeant First Class · December 13, 1968
- EARL RICHARD FRAYSergeant · December 13, 1968
- ROBERT RANDY FREGIASpecialist Four · December 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRED LEE CLARKEChief Master Sergeant · Panel 36W, Line 14
- DOUGLAS VINCENT DAILEYSenior Master Sergeant · Panel 36W, Line 14
- MORGAN JEFFERSON DONAHUEMajor · Panel 36W, Line 14
- SAMUEL FRANKLIN WALKER JRChief Master Sergeant · Panel 36W, Line 19
From Long Island City
- WILLIAM JAMES HENRYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1965
- JOSEPH STEPHEN HENRIQUEZLieutenant Commander · August 10, 1966
- PETER JOSEPH FREDERICKColonel · March 15, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH SUSSMEIERPrivate · July 8, 1967
- WALTER EDMUND GIBLIN JRPrivate First Class · July 19, 1967
- JOSEPH HEALYSpecialist Four · December 3, 1967
- ABRAHAM JACKSONStaff Sergeant · January 31, 1968
- CHARLES JAMES BAUER JRPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- EDWARD EUGENE HOLTCorporal · March 21, 1968
- CHARLES E DANIELSPrivate First Class · March 22, 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.