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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Jarrett.

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FREDERICK JARRETT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 18, 1944 – May 8, 1968

Service record

Frederick Jarrett, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57E · Line 4

Position of Panel 57E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 18, 1944
Home of record
Kaneohe, Hawaii (Honolulu County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 8, 1968
Age
23
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 57E, Line 4

Same unit, same day

From Kaneohe

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.