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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Harry Lewis.

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FREDERICK HARRY LEWIS

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 21, 1930 – October 18, 1966

Service record

Frederick Harry Lewis, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 87

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
October 21, 1930
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 18, 1966
Age
35
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 87

Same unit, same day

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.