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FREDERICK G PARKER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 23, 1948 – December 24, 1968
Service recordFrederick G Parker JR, of Northfield, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 24, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- November 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Northfield, Massachusetts (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 73
- BRUCE MICHAEL JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 24, 1968
- CHARLES DENNIS MAURINPrivate First Class · December 24, 1968
- JAMES D OZBUNChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 24, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE RICHARDSCorporal · December 24, 1968
From Northfield
- MARTIN GEHRING GIVENWarrant Officer 1 · November 21, 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.