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DAVID URBAN FRITZ
Corporal · U.S. Army
September 18, 1948 – August 27, 1968
Service recordDavid Urban Fritz, of Cologne, Minnesota, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 27, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Cologne, Minnesota (Carver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 27, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 41
- DENNIS PATRICK FRIEDHOFFPrivate First Class · August 27, 1968
- ALLEN AVERY GRIFFINSpecialist Four · August 27, 1968
- PAUL RAY GRINESpecialist Four · August 27, 1968
- JAMES RONALD HARRISSergeant · August 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HENRY LUKE WARNER IIIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 46W, Line 46
From Cologne
- CHARLES LEONARD HARTUNGPrivate First Class · January 6, 1970
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.