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GARRY DON FREEMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 11, 1947 – January 12, 1967
Service recordGarry Don Freeman, of Ft Payne, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 15
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Ft Payne, Alabama (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 15
- CAREY WAYNE ELLENBERGERPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- THOMAS ARTHUR GERGPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- MICHAEL RAYMOND ISHMANSpecialist Four · January 12, 1967
- ANGUS N JACKSONSergeant · January 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS COLLINS SHEAStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 18
- RONALD RA VANREGENMORTERCaptain · Panel 14E, Line 19
From Ft Payne
- BENNIE RAY MONCUSPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- JAMES HOWARD BURTCorporal · December 7, 1968
- GERALD WAYNE STEPHENSSpecialist Four · April 21, 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.