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FRED ALBERT TRYON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 23, 1946 – December 18, 1965
Service recordFred Albert Tryon JR, of Downey, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 18, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 26
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
- September 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Downey, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1965; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 26
- FEDERICO SILVALance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- JACK SHIVELY SWENDERLance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- JOSEPH MICHAEL THIMMCorporal · December 18, 1965
- JAMES ESCOL THOMPSONSergeant · December 18, 1965
From Downey
- ROBERT RONALD BOHLERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- CLIFFORD LEROY WHIPPLELance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- WALTER L WONNACOTTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- JON LAIRD MESSERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- MICHAEL CHEROFFSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
- DURAND GARFIELD LIGGETTPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- WAYNE CLARK HARMONCorporal · May 19, 1967
- CHARLES RUSSELL LAUERCorporal · June 18, 1967
- JAMES CURTIS HOUGHTONSpecialist Four · December 16, 1967
- PABLO DURANPrivate First Class · March 5, 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.