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DOUGLAS LAWRENCE FRIED
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
November 30, 1942 – September 25, 1967
Service recordDouglas Lawrence Fried, of Missoula, Montana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- November 30, 1942
- Home of record
- Missoula, Montana (Missoula County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 25, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 9
- JAMES WILLIAM CHEEKLance Corporal · September 25, 1967
- DAVID LAWRENCE COWARTLance Corporal · September 25, 1967
- STEPHEN C CRABTREEPrivate First Class · September 25, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD CRAFTSergeant First Class · September 25, 1967
From Missoula
- WILLIAM LOUIS CYRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- JACOB FRANCIS STEPANCaptain · March 10, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HAVRANEKLance Corporal · June 11, 1967
- DONALD ALEXANDER LEHUTALance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- ANTHONY BLAKE CADWELLPrivate · October 17, 1967
- GEORGE PERCY KENDALL JRGunnery Sergeant · February 4, 1968
- ALAN LEE BOYERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- LIONEL RUSSELL CRASELance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- ROBERT HUGH CARROLLMajor · May 12, 1968
- DAVID PATRICK SULLIVANSecond Lieutenant · September 4, 1968
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.