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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stephen Ely Feistner.

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STEPHEN ELY FEISTNER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 8, 1947 – October 8, 1967

Service record

Stephen Ely Feistner, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 70

Position of Panel 27E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 8, 1947
Home of record
Cedar Grove, New Jersey (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 8, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 81 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 70

Same unit, same day

From Cedar Grove

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.