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FREDERICK WILLIAM GRESCH
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 29, 1946 – January 15, 1969
Service recordFrederick William Gresch, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1969, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Ipswich, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Giang Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 7
- DENNIS MELVIN FAIRCHILDSergeant · January 15, 1969
- EDWARD FREDERICK GRANDPRECorporal · January 15, 1969
- GARY LEE HEEMANPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
- JOSEPH EMANUAL HURNEYSergeant · January 15, 1969
From Ipswich
- PAUL FRANCIS DOYONLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- JOHN F MATTAROCCHIA JRSergeant · May 7, 1969
- ARTHUR HANS HARDYCaptain · March 14, 1972
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.