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FREDERICK LOUIS GRUBER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 9, 1949 – December 1, 1968
Service recordFrederick Louis Gruber, of Sierra Madre, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 1, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- February 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Sierra Madre, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1968; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 16
- THOMAS EARL ALFORD IIIPrivate First Class · December 1, 1968
- ERVIN PRESTON CANOY JRPrivate First Class · December 1, 1968
- CURTIS RAY CRUMPrivate First Class · December 1, 1968
- ROGER ALLEN HOLTECorporal · December 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALFREDO D GRANADO-AVILESCorporal · Panel 37W, Line 17
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.