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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Fletcher.

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PETER FLETCHER

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 21, 1946 – January 20, 1968

Service record

Peter Fletcher, of Hudson, New Hampshire, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 20, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 86

Position of Panel 34E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Born
September 21, 1946
Home of record
Hudson, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 20, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 86

From Hudson

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.