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FREDRICK MERVYN HALL
Captain · U.S. Air Force
June 6, 1943 – April 12, 1969
Service recordFredrick Mervyn Hall, of Waynesville, North Carolina, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on April 12, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 63
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Weapon Systems Officer (1551C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 390 TFS
- Born
- June 6, 1943
- Home of record
- Waynesville, North Carolina (Haywood County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 12, 1969
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 12, 1969; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “390 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27W, Line 63
- FELIX ANTONIO CALDERONSergeant · April 12, 1969
- DONALD GLENN DROZLieutenant (junior grade) · April 12, 1969
- JEFFREY STEPHEN DYERPrivate First Class · April 12, 1969
- STEPHEN MICHAEL FRYLance Corporal · April 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST LEO DESOTOColonel · Panel 27W, Line 62
From Waynesville
- FLOYD MILTON FRAZIERTechnical Sergeant · February 11, 1962
- DAVID CHAPPELL BROWNFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- WAYNE EDWARD SEXTONSpecialist Four · April 27, 1968
- ALFRED HIGHTOWER JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1968
- FRED ALLEN MOODYSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- MICHAEL FRANK DAVISSergeant · June 12, 1969
- KEITH DALE MEHAFFEYPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
- CARL BRUCE RAYPrivate First Class · December 3, 1969
- DAVID WAYNE FRADYSpecialist Four · August 22, 1971
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.