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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Randall Roger Freeberg.

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RANDALL ROGER FREEBERG

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 20, 1946 – August 22, 1967

Service record

Randall Roger Freeberg, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 22, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 28

Position of Panel 25E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Wireman (2511)
Born
August 20, 1946
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 22, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 28

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.