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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Ray Noe.

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FRANK RAY NOE

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

December 24, 1941 – November 1, 1967

Service record

Frank Ray Noe, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 6

Position of Panel 29E 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
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
December 24, 1941
Home of record
Hot Springs, Arkansas (Garland County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1967
Age
25
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1967; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Hot Springs

All 16 names from Hot Springs →

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.