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WILLIAM FUCHS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 24, 1945 – February 28, 1966
Service recordWilliam Fuchs JR, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 85
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1966; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 85
- WARREN LEE CHRISTENSENPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
- LESTER HOWARD CLEGGSpecialist Four · February 28, 1966
- PETER WHITMAN FIELDSAirman First Class · February 28, 1966
- FRANKLIN DELANO R GILBERTPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.