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ORVILLE BILL FRITS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 3, 1931 – May 20, 1967
Service recordOrville Bill Frits, of Concord, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 3, 1931
- Home of record
- Concord, California (Contra Costa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1967
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; 41 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 58
- RUDOLPH RALPH CORONA IIIPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- HAROLD EVERETT FETNERPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- REGINALD FLACKPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- EDWARDO JOSE GONZALESLance Corporal · May 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ALLEN BARTLEY RUSSELLSergeant First Class · Panel 20E, Line 67
From Concord
- EMIL ROGER ZISSSergeant · September 30, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH CALLANANCaptain · January 7, 1966
- FRANK LEE GONDERMANSpecialist Four · June 27, 1966
- WILLIAM H SCHEIDTSpecialist Four · June 28, 1966
- MICHAEL EUGENE MCCULLOUGHPrivate First Class · November 7, 1966
- JOSEPH THOMAS MELENDRESSpecialist Four · March 18, 1967
- DAVID NORTON PARKSPrivate First Class · June 24, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD FLICKINGERLance Corporal · October 11, 1967
- JOSEPH V SHERLOCK IIISpecialist Four · November 22, 1967
- WALTER R BOETTCHER JRSecond Lieutenant · December 6, 1967
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.