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DAVID WAYNE FRADY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 3, 1951 – August 22, 1971
Service recordDavid Wayne Frady, of Waynesville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1971, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 136 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 136
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 3, 1951
- Home of record
- Waynesville, North Carolina (Haywood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 22, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1971; two of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 136
- BILLY WAYNE DISHEROONSpecialist Five · August 22, 1971
- DWIGHT BRINSON HOWELLSergeant · August 22, 1971
- WILLIAM ERNEST LAMARSergeant · August 23, 1971
Same unit, same day
- BILLY WAYNE DISHEROONSpecialist Five · Panel 3W, Line 136
From Waynesville
- FLOYD MILTON FRAZIERTechnical Sergeant · February 11, 1962
- DAVID CHAPPELL BROWNFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- WAYNE EDWARD SEXTONSpecialist Four · April 27, 1968
- ALFRED HIGHTOWER JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1968
- FRED ALLEN MOODYSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- FREDRICK MERVYN HALLCaptain · April 12, 1969
- MICHAEL FRANK DAVISSergeant · June 12, 1969
- KEITH DALE MEHAFFEYPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
- CARL BRUCE RAYPrivate First Class · December 3, 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.