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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 Michael Gene Frey.

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MICHAEL GENE FREY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 21, 1949 – July 14, 1969

Service record

Michael Gene Frey, of Florissant, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1969, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 115

Position of Panel 21W 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)
Born
October 21, 1949
Home of record
Florissant, Missouri

Casualty

Date of death
July 14, 1969
Age
19
Added to the Wall
2016

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1969. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 115

From Florissant

All 16 names from Florissant →

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2016, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.