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FREDERICK JAMES LECHAK
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 18, 1937 – June 14, 1967
Service recordFrederick James Lechak, of Independence, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 101
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 18, 1937
- Home of record
- Independence, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1967
- Age
- 30
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 101
- RICHARD ALLEN CABLESpecialist Four · June 14, 1967
- FRANK A GIACOBELLO JRSpecialist Four · June 14, 1967
- ROBERT LOW HOLLANDPrivate First Class · June 14, 1967
- JOSEPH HERMAN URMANNPrivate First Class · June 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH R L BLAIRStaff Sergeant · Panel 21E, Line 100
From Independence
- DALE ARDEN WAIDSergeant · October 2, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN SADICKPrivate First Class · January 24, 1969
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.