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FREDERICK BEARD LINK
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 9, 1946 – March 1, 1968
Service recordFrederick Beard Link, of Newton, North Carolina, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 1, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 19
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Newton, North Carolina (Catawba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 19
- STEPHEN THOMAS KUCASFirst Sergeant · March 1, 1968
- RICHARD CLIVE LANNOMLieutenant · March 1, 1968
- DANNY LEDFORDPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- STANLEY REED LEWTERSpecialist Four · March 1, 1968
From Newton
- ODELL STOKES JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1968
- ROGER DALE ALEXANDERSpecialist Four · November 18, 1969
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.