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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Keith Eugene Frazier.

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KEITH EUGENE FRAZIER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 15, 1944 – October 13, 1967

Service record

Keith Eugene Frazier, of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 100

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 15, 1944
Home of record
Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 13, 1967
Age
23
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1967; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 100

From Sharon Hill

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.