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FREDERICK E HARRINGTON JR
Corporal · U.S. Army
July 26, 1946 – October 22, 1968
Service recordFrederick E Harrington JR, of Watertown, Massachusetts, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Watertown, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 18
- DENNIS REED CAINPrivate First Class · October 22, 1968
- ARTHUR JACK CARLPrivate First Class · October 22, 1968
- RODNEY RENE CHASTANTCaptain · October 22, 1968
- JACK ALVIN CORNSpecialist Five · October 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES JOSEPH ANGRISANISpecialist Four · Panel 40W, Line 17
- JOHN CHARLES KORINEKPrivate First Class · Panel 40W, Line 21
From Watertown
- JOHN ROBERT JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- JOHN HERBERT MORENOSergeant · March 1, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVANPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- WILLIAM KENNETH REGANSergeant · July 7, 1968
- PAUL JAMES GORMANPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- PAUL JOSEPH SULLIVANFirst Lieutenant · August 9, 1968
- RICHARD STEPHEN MOXLEYPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- JAMES PATRICK CASEYWarrant Officer 1 · May 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.