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FREEMON EVANS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 26, 1949 – December 4, 1968
Service recordFreemon Evans, of Gordon, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 38
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- May 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Gordon, Georgia (Wilkinson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1968; three of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 38
- GABRIEL CARDONA JRCorporal · December 4, 1968
- ROBERT CLOKESSpecialist Four · December 4, 1968
- THOMAS EUGENE CONKELPrivate First Class · December 4, 1968
- ROBERT PHILIP FISCHERCorporal · December 4, 1968
From Gordon
- ROBERT LEE PORTERSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
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.