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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clifford Kenneth Frye.

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CLIFFORD KENNETH FRYE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 20, 1946 – July 11, 1967

Service record

Clifford Kenneth Frye, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 51

Position of Panel 23E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
November 20, 1946
Home of record
St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 51

Same unit, same day

From St Paul

All 132 names from St Paul →

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.