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GARCLEE M FREDWELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 4, 1948 – August 29, 1968
Service recordGarclee M Fredwell, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- September 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Poplar Bluff, Missouri (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 59
- LARRY EDWARD FRANTZPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- ERNESTO R GALLARDOSpecialist Four · August 29, 1968
- DANIEL GUESTChief Petty Officer · August 29, 1968
- GARY ALBERT HALLCorporal · August 29, 1968
From Poplar Bluff
- DALE FRANCIS HUDSONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- FAMOUS LEE LANEPrivate First Class · April 20, 1966
- ROBERT DANIEL RICHARDSONCorporal · July 4, 1966
- GEORGE EDWARD STEWARTSpecialist Four · October 18, 1966
- EDWARD JERRY MULLERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- MICHAEL LEE ENDICOTTPrivate First Class · August 5, 1967
- PAUL JAMES MILLERPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- JAMES HARDIN METZColonel · April 15, 1968
- RONALD DAVID COBBLance Corporal · April 29, 1968
- RILEY DAVID RAULSTONLance Corporal · May 15, 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.