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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terrence Jay Freund.

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TERRENCE JAY FREUND

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

April 14, 1942 – October 26, 1966

Service record

Terrence Jay Freund, of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 26, 1966, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 109

Position of Panel 11E 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radioman (RM)
Unit (as recorded)
USNAVFORV
Born
April 14, 1942
Home of record
Sheboygan, Wisconsin (Sheboygan County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 26, 1966
Age
24
Province
Phong Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1966; he was the only one lost in Phong Dinh Province that day. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 109

Same unit, same day

From Sheboygan

All 16 names from Sheboygan →

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.