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ARTHUR ANTHONY FREDA JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 9, 1944 – September 3, 1966
Service recordArthur Anthony Freda JR, of Medford, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 3, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 9, 1944
- Home of record
- Medford, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 3, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date September 3, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 66
- ALBERT COLLINSPrivate First Class · September 3, 1966
- ELWOOD FRANKLIN NEAD JRPrivate First Class · September 3, 1966
- JOHN FRANCIS OCONNORPrivate First Class · September 3, 1966
- DOUGLAS EDWARD RAUSCHENBERGPrivate First Class · September 3, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ELWOOD FRANKLIN NEAD JRPrivate First Class · Panel 10E, Line 66
From Medford
- BERNARD JAMES CREEDSergeant · November 17, 1965
- HAROLD BARNETT NELSONLance Corporal · June 2, 1966
- EARL KENNETH BURNS JRSenior Master Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- EDWARD CHARLES MCCARTHYLance Corporal · February 2, 1967
- WILLIAM FRANCIS MCCARTHYLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- EDWARD WILLIAM ARGYFirst Lieutenant · January 10, 1968
- CHARLES AUGUSTUS YEOMANSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- VINCENT ANTONIO MOTTOLAPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- CRAIG FRANCIS SWAINPrivate First Class · August 2, 1968
- SAMUEL RODGER CASTELLANOPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
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.