GREEN BERETS Lewis, Frederick Harry (Huckleberry)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Lewis ​

• FORENAME

Frederick Harry (Huckleberry) ​

• UNIT

5 SF Group (MACV-SOG-CCN) (FOB-2) (ST Oregon,Bright Light) ​

• RANK

Sergeant First Class ​

• NUMBER

18266026​

• DATE OF DEATH

18th October 1966 ​

• AGE

35 ​

• GRAVESITE

Lafayette Memorial Park,Fayetteville,Cumberland County,North Carolina​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from San Antonio,Texas​

born 21.10.1930 San Antonio,Texas​

son of Mrs Charles Jaggers,San Antonio,Texas​

husband of Earline K. Lewis,Fayetteville,North Carolina (2 children Dawle and June)​

18 years service​

awards Bronze Star with V,Army Commendation Medal​

KIA near Soc Trang,Ba Xugen Province,South Vietnam​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 11E Line 87 ​

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"Friendly and easygoing,Huckleberry had a country way about him,and with an old straw hat propped above his freckled face,he needed just a piece of straw dangling from his teeth to perfectly impersonate the Twain character" (a Special Forces engineer at Kontum SF Base) ​

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