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GEORGE WASHINGTON FROE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 25, 1946 – April 9, 1967
Service recordGeorge Washington Froe, of Bluefield, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Bluefield, West Virginia (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. 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 18E, Line 3
- JOSEPH WILLIAM FRANCIS JRPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
- ALAN DOUGLAS FREDRICKSONPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
- CARIO FULLERCorporal · April 9, 1967
- FRANK JOSEPH GARCIAPrivate First Class · April 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FRANCIS M RINKERSergeant First Class · Panel 18E, Line 7
- HAROLD DENNIS VANBUSKIRKPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 8
From Bluefield
- EDWARD LARRY STEWARTSergeant · October 12, 1965
- CARL L MUNSEYStaff Sergeant · March 30, 1966
- JAMES FREEMAN HUNDLEYPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN BLACKWELLPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- HOWARD WILLIAM JONESStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1967
- FREDDIE ESTERSCorporal · July 6, 1967
- EDWARD JUNIOR SIMONSCorporal · October 14, 1967
- CHARLES RODNEY MORRISLance Corporal · July 6, 1968
- THOMAS BARRY CHRISTIANLance Corporal · August 6, 1968
- CHARLES DEAN PLUMMERChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 14, 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.