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JAMES KENNETH FRYE
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 23, 1946 – December 1, 1967
Service recordJames Kenneth Frye, of Aledo, Illinois, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 1, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 20
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- January 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Aledo, Illinois (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 20
- STANLEY JOSEPH YUREWICZSergeant · November 30, 1967
- JERRY LEON CARVERLance Corporal · December 1, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH HAGENPrivate First Class · December 1, 1967
- EARL DAVID MILLERPrivate First Class · December 1, 1967
From Aledo
- HORACE EARLE YOUNGStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1965
- ROBERT THOMAS FREEDPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- GORDON CURTISS BROWNPetty Officer First Class · May 19, 1968
- TIMOTHY JOE MCCREIGHTSpecialist Four · December 13, 1969
- MEREDITH GLENN ANDERSONMajor · April 28, 1970
- DAVID EUGENE WESTPrivate First Class · October 19, 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.