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FREDERICK WILLIAM LENNON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 21, 1944 – October 17, 1966
Service recordFrederick William Lennon, of Sioux City, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 83
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 21, 1944
- Home of record
- Sioux City, Iowa (Woodbury County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 17, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 83
- ARTHUR MITCHELL DOWNSPrivate First Class · October 17, 1966
- ROBERT WILSON KRALLLance Corporal · October 17, 1966
- JAMES CALEB LAMBERT JRLance Corporal · October 17, 1966
- IRVIN GEORGE MILLERPrivate First Class · October 17, 1966
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD JACKSON JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 11E, Line 82
From Sioux City
- DUANE MICHAEL NELSONPrivate First Class · October 10, 1965
- VERNON GLENN CHASEPrivate First Class · February 21, 1966
- DENNIS EDWARD BROWNPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- RONALD HARRY KAISERPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- KENNETT KEITH SCOTTLance Corporal · October 19, 1966
- ROBERT ERNEST HARRISLieutenant Colonel · November 9, 1966
- JEFFREY MARTI KROMMENHOEKLieutenant Commander · October 25, 1967
- KELLY FRANCIS COOKColonel · November 10, 1967
- RICHARD JOSEPH BOESHARTSergeant · December 15, 1967
- WILLIAM GEORGE DOWNS JRLance Corporal · March 14, 1968
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.