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FREDERICK JOHN BURNS
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 11, 1949 – December 25, 1967
Service recordFrederick John Burns, of Nassau, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on December 25, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 56
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 11, 1949
- Home of record
- Nassau, New York (Rensselaer County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 25, 1967
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 32E, Line 56
- GRADY MERRIL JORDANSergeant First Class · December 24, 1967
- MICHAEL BERNARD SWEENEYSecond Lieutenant · December 24, 1967
- MATTHEW JOHN AGUGLIAROPrivate First Class · December 25, 1967
- RICHARD WALTER BUDKACaptain · December 25, 1967
From Nassau
- WALTER ROY SCHMIDT JRCaptain · June 9, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN HAMMERSpecialist Four · March 13, 1971
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.