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FREDDIE LYNN FRIAR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 10, 1944 – March 9, 1967
Service recordFreddie Lynn Friar, of Blytheville, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 44
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 10, 1944
- Home of record
- Blytheville, Arkansas (Mississippi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 44
- JESSE ROMERO CASTROPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- MCKINLEY CAUGHMAN JRSpecialist Four · March 9, 1967
- IVEL DOAN FREEMANMajor · March 9, 1967
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GERALD EDWARD BARTRAMPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 42
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 44
From Blytheville
- CHARLES F KENNEDYSergeant · March 7, 1967
- WILLIE B BRADFORDSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- BURNELL WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- HORACE VALLEY ROBINSON JRSpecialist Four · November 20, 1968
- ROBERT EARL GRANTCorporal · March 8, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY BROWNLance Corporal · March 11, 1969
- LARRY MILTON KELLEYSergeant · April 7, 1969
- MARVIN EARL BELLStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1970
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.