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FRED ARTHUR BELCHER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 14, 1948 – September 13, 1968
Service recordFred Arthur Belcher, of Lafayette, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 45
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Lafayette, New Jersey (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 45
- RAYMOND BEAMPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
- STEVEN LEE BECKFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH BENZSpecialist Four · September 13, 1968
- STEVEN RANDALL BROOKSLance Corporal · September 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GILMER EARL HUMPHREYSSergeant · Panel 44W, Line 48
- ERVIN PROCTORCorporal · Panel 44W, Line 53
From Lafayette
- MARIO COSTAPrivate First Class · July 12, 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.