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FREDERICK GOCZAL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 4, 1948 – September 5, 1968
Service recordFrederick Goczal, of Bayonne, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 5, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 40
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 First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Bayonne, New Jersey (Hudson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 40
- TOMAS ANTONIO BARRERAPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE BOTTSSergeant · September 5, 1968
- ROBERT LAWRENCE FAIRBOTHAMSpecialist Four · September 5, 1968
- CARLTON TRAVIS GOREEPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
From Bayonne
- MICHAEL DANIEL CHWANCaptain · September 30, 1965
- STANLEY JOHN KOPCINSKILance Corporal · May 14, 1966
- FRANCIS MICHAEL MCGUIREPrivate · March 20, 1967
- THOMAS CHESTER BEKIEMPISLance Corporal · March 28, 1967
- VICTOR MANUEL NEGRONAirman First Class · September 19, 1967
- FRANK ANDRISANO JRCorporal · November 19, 1967
- DONALD JOSEPH CRUDENStaff Sergeant · December 27, 1967
- JAMES FRANCIS SOSNOWSKICaptain · February 16, 1968
- JAMES WITTPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- WACLAW JOZEF MACZULSKIGunnery Sergeant · March 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.