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FREDERICK JOHN FALK JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 2, 1948 – January 26, 1968
Service recordFrederick John Falk JR, of Torrington, Connecticut, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 39
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Torrington, Connecticut (Litchfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 39
- HOWARD FRANKLIN COLES JRSecond Lieutenant · January 26, 1968
- NORMAN EDWARD EIDSMOECaptain · January 26, 1968
- TERRY DEAN FINCHCorporal · January 26, 1968
- HARRY SAMUEL FITEZ JRPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
From Torrington
- PAUL HENRY PHILLIPSPrivate · July 5, 1966
- ANTHONY JOSEPH ROMANIELLOPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- JOHN FRANCIS TINO JRPrivate First Class · April 30, 1967
- RICHARD ALBERT CASSINSergeant · May 4, 1967
- GERALD JASON ROBERTS JRCorporal · August 31, 1967
- CHARLES LEE BERGEVINMajor · August 23, 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.