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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick M Ziomek.

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FREDERICK M ZIOMEK

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 21, 1951 – October 6, 1970

Service record

Frederick M Ziomek, of Buffalo, New York, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 6, 1970, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 69

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Born
February 21, 1951
Home of record
Buffalo, New York

Casualty

Date of death
October 6, 1970
Age
19
Added to the Wall
2020

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1970. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 69

From Buffalo

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2020, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.