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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 Junior Dobbins.

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FREDDIE JUNIOR DOBBINS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 1, 1948 – December 10, 1968

Service record

Freddie Junior Dobbins, of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 80

Position of Panel 37W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 1, 1948
Home of record
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina (Wilkes County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 10, 1968
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; five of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 80

Same unit, same day

From North Wilkesboro

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.