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DONALD FREY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 17, 1946 – October 9, 1965
Service recordDonald Frey, of St James, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 17, 1946
- Home of record
- St James, Missouri (Phelps County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1965
- Age
- 18
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 114
- CARL EDGAR ANDERSONPrivate First Class · October 9, 1965
- JAMES CHARLES BERMINGHAMPrivate First Class · October 9, 1965
- WAYNE PETER EARL BREEDINGPrivate First Class · October 9, 1965
- LAURIANO LAWRENCE LOVATOPrivate First Class · October 9, 1965
Same unit, same day
- LAURIANO LAWRENCE LOVATOPrivate First Class · Panel 2E, Line 114
From St James
- CURTIS FRANK THURMANLieutenant · February 17, 1968
- MICHAEL RICHARD WILSONWarrant Officer 1 · August 11, 1968
- MICHAEL ROY WILSONWarrant Officer 1 · June 25, 1971
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.