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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Eugene Trani JR.

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FREDERICK EUGENE TRANI JR

Lieutenant · U.S. Navy

July 11, 1940 – September 26, 1968

Service record

Frederick Eugene Trani JR, of Hyde Park, New York, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 26, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 42W · Line 24

Position of Panel 42W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
Born
July 11, 1940
Home of record
Hyde Park, New York (Dutchess County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 26, 1968
Age
28
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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55 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 42W, Line 24

From Hyde Park

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.