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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederic Peers Webb.

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FREDERIC PEERS WEBB

Seaman · U.S. Navy

February 1, 1943 – December 21, 1967

Service record

Frederic Peers Webb, of Redmond, Oregon, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 21, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 41

Position of Panel 32E 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radioman (RM)
Unit (as recorded)
MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
Born
February 1, 1943
Home of record
Redmond, Oregon (Deschutes County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 21, 1967
Age
24
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1967; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 41

From Redmond

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.