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JULIAN THOMAS FIELDS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 28, 1947 – May 18, 1968
Service recordJulian Thomas Fields, of Pikeville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 17
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Pikeville, Kentucky (Pike County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 62E, Line 17
- WALTER LYMAN ENSIGN JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- KEVIN LYNN FORBESPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- BYRL WILLIAM GAERTNERLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- ALAN STUART GELBStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK G HERRERASergeant · Panel 62E, Line 19
From Pikeville
- KELLY FIELDSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT HOPKINSSergeant · July 8, 1968
- WILLIAM KENDALL BLACKBURNSergeant · August 16, 1969
- MANNIFRED YATESMajor · September 13, 1969
- DARRELL JACK SMITHSpecialist Four · February 6, 1970
- DON MCCLELLAND JUSTICECorporal · September 7, 1970
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.