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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 Terry Lee Fuhrman.

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TERRY LEE FUHRMAN

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

November 16, 1945 – April 14, 1968

Service record

Terry Lee Fuhrman, of Ft Wayne, Indiana, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 14, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49E · Line 52

Position of Panel 49E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
November 16, 1945
Home of record
Ft Wayne, Indiana (Allen County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 14, 1968
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 49E, Line 52

From Ft Wayne

All 65 names from Ft Wayne →

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.