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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Floyd Milton Frazier.

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FLOYD MILTON FRAZIER

Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

October 22, 1927 – February 11, 1962

Service record

Floyd Milton Frazier, of Waynesville, North Carolina, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on February 11, 1962, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 6

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
October 22, 1927
Home of record
Waynesville, North Carolina (Haywood County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 11, 1962
Age
34
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1962; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In February 1962, 12 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 6

From Waynesville

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.