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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Lee Ryan.

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FREDERICK LEE RYAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 3, 1945 – June 21, 1966

Service record

Frederick Lee Ryan, of Steubenville, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 72

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Redstone Electronic Mechanic (21B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
August 3, 1945
Home of record
Steubenville, Ohio (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 21, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 72

Same unit, same day

From Steubenville

All 16 names from Steubenville →

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.