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FRED EUGENE ANDREWS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 23, 1948 – January 4, 1968
Service recordFred Eugene Andrews, of Urbana, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 34
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Urbana, Arkansas (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 34
- THOMAS DALTON BABIN JRFirst Lieutenant · January 4, 1968
- REGINALD WUNG YETT CHUNPrivate First Class · January 4, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL CLAVIERSpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
- COY G STAYTONStaff Sergeant · January 4, 1968
From Urbana
- JIMMY LEE GOLDENPrivate First Class · July 11, 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.