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FRANK G HERRERA
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 28, 1948 – May 18, 1968
Service recordFrank G Herrera, of Mesa, Arizona, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 19
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Mesa, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 62E, Line 19
- THOMAS LEE HUBBARDPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- LEWIS PATRICK IORIOSergeant · May 18, 1968
- DONALD BYRON JONESLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- BRUCE LEVYPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JULIAN THOMAS FIELDSSergeant · Panel 62E, Line 17
From Mesa
- ROBERT ORRIE LONGPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GUY RICHARD REEDPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- BOBBY JOE BAREFIELDPrivate First Class · May 26, 1966
- JOHN ALLAN RICHPrivate · August 25, 1966
- JERRY TIMOTHY SUTERPetty Officer Third Class · September 15, 1966
- JOHN LOUIS CZECHOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- DALLAS TYLER ADAIR JRCorporal · April 26, 1968
- ROJELIO OLIVAN MUNOZ IIPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- MERRILL THOMAS GERAGHTYFirst Lieutenant · September 6, 1968
- RONALD JAMES HUELSKAMPPrivate First Class · September 29, 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.