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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Charles Forame.

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PETER CHARLES FORAME

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

May 21, 1947 – December 19, 1971

Service record

Peter Charles Forame, of Mclean, Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 2W · Line 89

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
May 21, 1947
Home of record
Mclean, Virginia (Fairfax County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 19, 1971
Age
24
Country
Cambodia
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Five names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1971. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

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.

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Also on Panel 2W, Line 89

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From Mclean

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.