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FREDERICK CHARLES SCHMIDT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 11, 1945 – April 23, 1967
Service recordFrederick Charles Schmidt, of Parkville, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 23, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 76
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 11, 1945
- Home of record
- Parkville, Missouri (Platte County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 23, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 76
- CHARLES ROBERT NUNNPrivate First Class · April 23, 1967
- RANDALL BRIAN RAINVILLEPrivate First Class · April 23, 1967
- JAMES LEROY RUSSELLSergeant · April 23, 1967
- ROBERT CLAYTON STEPHENSONPrivate First Class · April 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND EDDIE BENSONFirst Sergeant · Panel 18E, Line 74
From Parkville
- GARRY LYNN IHRIGCorporal · November 26, 1967
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.