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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Paul Addice.

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FRANK PAUL ADDICE

Hospitalman · U.S. Navy

September 13, 1948 – April 11, 1968

Service record

Frank Paul Addice, of Wanaque, New Jersey, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 49E · Line 18

Position of Panel 49E 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. Navy
Rank
Hospitalman (HN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
September 13, 1948
Home of record
Wanaque, New Jersey (Passaic County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 49E, Line 18

From Wanaque

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.