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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Fred Samuel Fullerton JR.

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FRED SAMUEL FULLERTON JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 2, 1947 – May 8, 1968

Service record

Fred Samuel Fullerton JR, of York, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57E · Line 3

Position of Panel 57E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 2, 1947
Home of record
York, Pennsylvania (York County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 8, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 57E, Line 3

From York

All 37 names from York →

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.