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FREDERIC CLARENCE STYER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 16, 1946 – May 28, 1967
Service recordFrederic Clarence Styer, of Menomonie, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Menomonie, Wisconsin (Dunn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 7
- RICHARD ALLEN CASPERPrivate First Class · May 28, 1967
- MICHAEL SOROVETZCorporal · May 28, 1967
- GORDON MARSHAL TRIPLETTLance Corporal · May 28, 1967
- RICHARD ELZIE VEACHSpecialist Four · May 28, 1967
From Menomonie
- WAYNE MICHAEL HAYESFirst Lieutenant · July 6, 1967
- JOHN ROY HULBERTPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- JOHN LEON ABRAMSLieutenant · July 13, 1968
- PAUL DAVID DERBYCaptain · November 17, 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.