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FREDERICK DALE RICKELS
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
February 14, 1949 – May 12, 1968
Service recordFrederick Dale Rickels, of Wauchula, Florida, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 11
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
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Wauchula, Florida (Hardee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 11
- ALLEN W MCNEILSergeant · May 12, 1968
- ANTHONY RAYMOND PRIETOPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- FREDERICK JOEL RANSBOTTOMMajor · May 12, 1968
- GREGORY ARNOLD RINDYPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
From Wauchula
- RAYMOND LAVOY BOATWRIGHTSergeant · January 19, 1966
- TERREL ELBERT CARTERPetty Officer First Class · January 15, 1967
- CHARLES C DICKEY JRFirst Lieutenant · March 31, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD LONGAirman · July 29, 1967
- JOHNNY MEANSPrivate First Class · October 26, 1967
- ROBERT GLENN PENDLEYSpecialist Four · December 11, 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.