The Wall › Panel 17E › New Jersey › Frederick George Wheeler
FREDERICK GEORGE WHEELER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 30, 1932 – March 22, 1967
Service recordFrederick George Wheeler, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 26
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 30, 1932
- Home of record
- Elizabeth, New Jersey (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 26
- JUNIOR WILKERSONPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- BILLY JOE WITZKOSKIPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- JOHN ZUPANPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- FRED STANLEY LEAPrivate First Class · March 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH DAVID FRANCOLINISpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 18
From Elizabeth
- CHARLES EARNEST IANNUZZICorporal · August 18, 1965
- DAVID BASHAWPrivate First Class · June 7, 1966
- MICHAEL PIASCIKCorporal · July 6, 1966
- MANZIE GLOVER JRSpecialist Four · September 19, 1966
- ROBERT JAMES BRADYPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- DENNIS RUTHStaff Sergeant · June 17, 1967
- JOSEPH MAIUROLance Corporal · August 17, 1967
- CHARLES JAMES HOLLANDSergeant First Class · August 18, 1967
- JOHN MICHAEL GALLAGHERCorporal · September 14, 1967
- EUGENE MILEYPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
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.