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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Leonard Fragua.

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GEORGE LEONARD FRAGUA

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 18, 1947 – December 25, 1966

Service record

George Leonard Fragua, of Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 78

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
205 ORD PLT 1 CAV DIV
Born
November 18, 1947
Home of record
Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico (Sandoval County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 25, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 78

From Jemez Pueblo

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.