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REX BRADFORD FREEMAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 4, 1934 – March 2, 1968
Service recordRex Bradford Freeman, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 31
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 4, 1934
- Home of record
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
100 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 31
- MICHAEL ARTHUR EVENSONSeaman · March 2, 1968
- EARL FREDERICK FITCHCorporal · March 2, 1968
- GARY VIRGIL FRAZIERPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- MICHAEL DENNIS FROSTPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WAYNE LUECKEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 42E, Line 36
From Oklahoma City
- LAVESTER LEE WILLIAMSCaptain · March 23, 1963
- GORDON RICHARD BROWNCaptain · October 24, 1963
- CHARLES KENNETH SIDESLance Corporal · March 26, 1965
- FRANK PETER WATSONCaptain · June 18, 1965
- LARRY DREW HARVEYCorporal · October 3, 1965
- GARY HOWARD JONESPrivate First Class · October 14, 1965
- GEORGE RAY THOMPSONSergeant · December 12, 1965
- JEFF GOUDEAU JRPrivate First Class · December 13, 1965
- GARY RAY ARTMANSpecialist Four · February 18, 1966
- JERRY D LEWISSpecialist Four · March 16, 1966
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.