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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 Rudolph Frost III.

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FRANK RUDOLPH FROST III

Senior Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

May 2, 1914 – June 11, 1967

Service record

Frank Rudolph Frost III, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, served as a Senior Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 11, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 53. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 88

Position of Panel 21E 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
Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
May 2, 1914
Home of record
Bridgeport, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1967
Age
53
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 88

From Bridgeport

All 30 names from Bridgeport →

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.