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FRANK WILLIAM ATHERTON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 6, 1950 – April 13, 1968
Service recordFrank William Atherton, of Templeton, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 38
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 6, 1950
- Home of record
- Templeton, Pennsylvania (Armstrong County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 38
- FLOYD WILLIAM PETTIE IIIPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- DOUGLAS RICHARD WEIHERSpecialist Four · April 12, 1968
- RAYMOND ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- ROLAND LEE BALLEWPrivate · April 13, 1968
From Templeton
- CHARLES NELSON SCHALL JRCorporal · October 4, 1968
- WILLIAM LEE ANDERSONSergeant · May 27, 1969
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.