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FREDDIE LEE WHITLEY
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 9, 1949 – August 23, 1968
Service recordFreddie Lee Whitley, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 57
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 9, 1949
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 47W, Line 57
- HAROLD ROBERT VOORHEISSergeant First Class · August 23, 1968
- ALBERT MARION WALTERSergeant First Class · August 23, 1968
- JERRY ALAN WEIMERLance Corporal · August 23, 1968
- DONALD WALTER WELCHSergeant First Class · August 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAMON GARCIAStaff Sergeant · Panel 47W, Line 42
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 1965
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.