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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alfred Allen Frye.

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ALFRED ALLEN FRYE

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

June 4, 1937 – January 27, 1965

Service record

Alfred Allen Frye, of Hickman Mills, Missouri, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 27, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 84

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
Born
June 4, 1937
Home of record
Hickman Mills, Missouri (Jackson County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1965
Age
27
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1965; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In January 1965, 18 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 84

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.