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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 Fredrick H Williams JR.

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FREDRICK H WILLIAMS JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

June 8, 1943 – May 26, 1968

Service record

Fredrick H Williams JR, of Sutter Creek, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 26, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 65W · Line 2

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Tank Officer (I) (1802)
Born
June 8, 1943
Home of record
Sutter Creek, California (Amador County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1968
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.