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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Vernon Robert Fyall.

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VERNON ROBERT FYALL

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 6, 1949 – November 6, 1968

Service record

Vernon Robert Fyall, of Port Royal, South Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 6, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 39W · Line 26

Position of Panel 39W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
March 6, 1949
Home of record
Port Royal, South Carolina (Beaufort County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 6, 1968
Age
19
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 39W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

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.