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ALFRED FRAZIER MCCANTS
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 7, 1931 – November 29, 1968
Service recordAlfred Frazier McCants, of Fallbrook, California, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 29, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 6
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- December 7, 1931
- Home of record
- Fallbrook, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 6
- MELVIN RICKEY GREENSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- ERVIN ELLIS HARRISSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- BILLY EUGENE HUGHES IISergeant · November 29, 1968
- JESUS QUINENE MENOPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
From Fallbrook
- WAYNE LEROY SAPPGunnery Sergeant · February 2, 1968
- JAMES THOMAS GAYNORSergeant Major · February 15, 1968
- RICARDO VILLARREALPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- ALBERT JACKSON DAVISStaff Sergeant · January 17, 1969
- DENNIS WALTER KIPPPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- RICHARD MARTIN THOMPSONCorporal · December 6, 1969
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.