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DOUGLAS PAUL FRASER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 25, 1950 – July 6, 1968
Service recordDouglas Paul Fraser, of Windham, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 6, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53W · Line 26
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 554 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- January 25, 1950
- Home of record
- Windham, Connecticut (Windham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 6, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 554 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53W, Line 26
- WILLIAM RIEVES CURRYPrivate First Class · July 6, 1968
- JOHN WALTER DUNLAPSpecialist Four · July 6, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES HANSENPrivate First Class · July 6, 1968
- ARTHUR HARMONPrivate First Class · July 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN WALTER DUNLAPSpecialist Four · Panel 53W, Line 26
- JERE LEE WHITAKERCorporal · Panel 53W, Line 30
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.