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FREDRICK KEITH BRANDT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 14, 1949 – December 28, 1970
Service recordFredrick Keith Brandt, of Manistee, Michigan, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Manistee, Michigan (Manistee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 13
- KENNETH WAYNE GRIFFINCorporal · December 28, 1970
- JAMES LEONARD SMITHCaptain · December 28, 1970
- ROGER LYNN TEETERStaff Sergeant · December 28, 1970
- ROBERT JOHN CURTISSergeant First Class · December 29, 1970
From Manistee
- DAVID ALLEN BRADSHAWSergeant · September 7, 1967
- JOSEPH DAUNISStaff Sergeant · October 20, 1967
- KENT ROBERT BOLTERPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES DAVENPORTSpecialist Four · March 17, 1969
- THOMAS ARTHUR DAVISChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 18, 1969
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.