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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Matthew Feierabend.

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PETER MATTHEW FEIERABEND

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 19, 1940 – February 16, 1964

Service record

Peter Matthew Feierabend, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 43

Position of Panel 1E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Born
April 19, 1940
Home of record
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 16, 1964
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Other Weapons

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1964. In February 1964, 11 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 43

From Milwaukee

All 204 names from Milwaukee →

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.