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FREDDIE DARREL FORD
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 6, 1943 – January 7, 1968
Service recordFreddie Darrel Ford, of Church Hill, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 7, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 67
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 6, 1943
- Home of record
- Church Hill, Tennessee (Hawkins County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 67
- MARSHALL H FORDWarrant Officer 1 · January 7, 1968
- CONRAD NICHOLAS GONZALEZPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- BOB LEROY GREGORYLieutenant Colonel · January 7, 1968
- RENE GUERRA-HERNANDEZSpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
From Church Hill
- DON EARL ALLEYPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- GARY STEVEN ROWLETTPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- GARY MICHAEL CARTERPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- CONLEY ARLEN BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · June 2, 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.