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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Freddie Gean Lloyd.

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FREDDIE GEAN LLOYD

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

August 30, 1940 – February 16, 1966

Service record

Freddie Gean Lloyd, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 40

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 30, 1940
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 16, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 123 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 40

Same unit, same day

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.