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FRED LEWIS THRIFT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 3, 1948 – May 28, 1968
Service recordFred Lewis Thrift, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64W · Line 17
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
- January 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 64W, Line 17
- BERNELL TAYLORSpecialist Four · May 28, 1968
- ROGER WAYNE VOLZPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
- GEORGE NELSON WALKERSergeant First Class · May 28, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD WARDLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.