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FREEMAN BOLEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 9, 1946 – March 31, 1968
Service recordFreeman Bolen, of Columbus, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SVC BTRY 8 BN 4 ARTY 108 ARTY GRP
- Born
- January 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Columbus, Mississippi (Lowndes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 19
- ABRA JOSEPH WOLFE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1968
- EDUARDO ARANDA-SANTOSSpecialist Four · March 31, 1968
- LESLIE ARNOLD BALLSergeant · March 31, 1968
- JAMES BARRETT BROCKPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
From Columbus
- BENJAMIN F LIDDELL IIIPrivate First Class · June 21, 1966
- JERRY DALE HUMPHREYPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- KENNETH RAY CLOPTONSergeant · July 2, 1967
- LARRY HUSTON WALDENPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- JAMES EARL WILLIAMSCorporal · March 3, 1968
- GEORGE WASHINGTON MOORESergeant · April 11, 1968
- ROBERT SAMUEL CLARK JRStaff Sergeant · April 12, 1968
- ROCKFORD GREY EVERETTPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- WILLIE WHITFIELD JRPrivate First Class · August 12, 1968
- ROY LEE HENLEYCorporal · September 22, 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.