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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 Theodore Glen Feland.

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THEODORE GLEN FELAND

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 14, 1934 – April 20, 1961

Service record

Theodore Glen Feland, of Sonoma, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1961, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 3

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 14, 1934
Home of record
Sonoma, California (Sonoma County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 20, 1961
Age
26
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1961; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In April 1961, 4 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 3

From Sonoma

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.