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LOUIS WAYNE FRERICKS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 12, 1946 – March 12, 1969
Service recordLouis Wayne Frericks, of Kings, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 19
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Kings, Illinois (Ogle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 19
- JAMES ANTHONY FRANKLINSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- JAMES ALBERT GAZZEPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- JAMES CAROLL GILBERTSergeant Major · March 12, 1969
- THOMAS EWALD HACKERSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JERRY OWEN YOUNGPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 26
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.