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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederick Robert Kutzer.

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FREDERICK ROBERT KUTZER

Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

April 23, 1941 – March 26, 1969

Service record

Frederick Robert Kutzer, of Croydon, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 26, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 47

Position of Panel 28W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Air Force
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Born
April 23, 1941
Home of record
Croydon, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1969
Age
27
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1969; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 47

From Croydon

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.