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LAUREN DEAN FRITZ
Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
September 10, 1947 – December 24, 1969
Service recordLauren Dean Fritz, of Reading, Minnesota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 24, 1969, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 89
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- September 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Reading, Minnesota (Nobles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 24, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 24, 1969; two of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 89
- FLOYD IRVY BEACHSergeant · December 24, 1969
- RONALD ARTHUR CHRISTENSergeant · December 24, 1969
- WILLIAM JOHN DAHLSpecialist Four · December 24, 1969
- RONALD GENE DENNISSergeant · December 24, 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.