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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 Ronald Lloyd Frazer.

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RONALD LLOYD FRAZER

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 2, 1945 – May 24, 1968

Service record

Ronald Lloyd Frazer, of Cambridge City, Indiana, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 68E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 68E · Line 2

Position of Panel 68E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
Unit (as recorded)
82 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
September 2, 1945
Home of record
Cambridge City, Indiana (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 24, 1968
Age
22
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

76 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1968; nine of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 68E, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From Cambridge City

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.