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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Fred Walter Pack.

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FRED WALTER PACK

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 4, 1937 – March 11, 1967

Service record

Fred Walter Pack, of Lompoc, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 64

Position of Panel 16E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Born
February 4, 1937
Home of record
Lompoc, California (Santa Barbara County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 11, 1967
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

57 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 64

From Lompoc

All 13 names from Lompoc →

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.