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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Alloysius Condon.

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FRANK ALLOYSIUS CONDON

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

December 6, 1920 – June 6, 1968

Service record

Frank Alloysius Condon, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 47. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 60W · Line 27

Position of Panel 60W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 720 MP BN 89 MP GRP 18 MP BDE
Born
December 6, 1920
Home of record
Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 6, 1968
Age
47
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “C CO 720 MP BN 89 MP GRP 18 MP BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 60W, Line 27

Same unit, same day

From Augusta

All 49 names from Augusta →

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.