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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Conrad Hebert.

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FREDERICK CONRAD HEBERT

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

January 13, 1951 – September 30, 1971

Service record

Frederick Conrad Hebert, of Richmond, Virginia, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on September 30, 1971, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 31

Position of Panel 2W 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. Army
Rank
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
January 13, 1951
Home of record
Richmond, Virginia (Richmond (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 30, 1971
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1971; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 31

Same unit, same day

From Richmond

All 113 names from Richmond →

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.