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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frederico V Dela-Cruz.

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FREDERICO V DELA-CRUZ

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 14, 1947 – August 20, 1969

Service record

Frederico V Dela-Cruz, of Agana, Guam, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 77

Position of Panel 19W 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. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
December 14, 1947
Home of record
Agana, Guam (Guam County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 20, 1969
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 77

Same unit, same day

From Agana

All 14 names from Agana →

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.