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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 Wilber Dale Frahm.

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WILBER DALE FRAHM

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

June 28, 1939 – June 1, 1970

Service record

Wilber Dale Frahm, of Staunton, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 1, 1970, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10W · Line 130

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Structural Mech (Structures) (AMS)
Born
June 28, 1939
Home of record
Staunton, Illinois (Macoupin County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 1, 1970
Age
30
Province
Binh Thuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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19 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1970; three of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Staunton

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.