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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charlie Frazier JR.

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CHARLIE FRAZIER JR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 19, 1930 – July 9, 1966

Service record

Charlie Frazier JR, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 10

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 19, 1930
Home of record
Colorado Springs, Colorado (El Paso County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1966
Age
35
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Colorado Springs

All 46 names from Colorado Springs →

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.