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EARL WAYNE FRYE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 22, 1948 – March 26, 1968
Service recordEarl Wayne Frye, of Franklin, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 32
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Warehouse Clerk (3051)
- Born
- August 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Franklin, Kentucky (Simpson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 32
- WILLIAM WARREN DINIROSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- MICHAEL ANDREW FAYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- WAYNE JAMES FIELDINGHospitalman · March 26, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES FOUSTSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- JOHNNY EDWARD GANTTSergeant · March 26, 1968
From Franklin
- GERALD WAYNE MAYBERRYLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
- PAUL DOUGLAS ATONPrivate First Class · July 29, 1968
- RONNIE LEE CLAYBURNLance Corporal · June 7, 1969
- WILLARD EARL SPIVEYCorporal · December 17, 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.