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WILLIAM CLIFFORD FRALEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 12, 1931 – July 6, 1966
Service recordWilliam Clifford Fraley, of Ashland, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 6, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 133 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 133
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 12, 1931
- Home of record
- Ashland, Kentucky (Boyd County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 6, 1966
- Age
- 34
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 133
- WILLIAM FREDRICK FREESTONEGunnery Sergeant · July 5, 1966
- PAUL HENRY PHILLIPSPrivate · July 5, 1966
- NEIL GEORGE REUTERCaptain · July 5, 1966
- JERRY ARDELL ROBERTSFirst Lieutenant · July 5, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOHN F LEEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 9E, Line 1
From Ashland
- CHARLES DONALD SENTERSPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- JAMES LEONARD FAINSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- BOBBY SENTERSStaff Sergeant · June 20, 1966
- LAWRENCE EDWARD LEWISAirman First Class · May 12, 1967
- CARL PHILIP MCCORMICKSergeant · November 5, 1967
- ARTHUR JACKSON SANDERSStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1967
- JOSEPH BRUCE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
- DOUGLAS FRANKLIN LOUDENBACKPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM ALLENSpecialist Five · April 23, 1968
- KENNETH RAY NEWSOMELance Corporal · May 6, 1968
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.