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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 William Joseph Frey.

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WILLIAM JOSEPH FREY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 10, 1947 – April 3, 1968

Service record

William Joseph Frey, of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47E · Line 50

Position of Panel 47E 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
March 10, 1947
Home of record
Monroeville, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 3, 1968
Age
21
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47E, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Monroeville

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.