In Loving Memory of ... Staff Sergeant Freddie Leon Slater.
*** Brown Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, BROWN CHAPEL A.M.E. CEMETERY 282 - OFF ZION AVE. S OF BLUFF RD. IN ARTHURTOWN AREA. 808 BARNEST RD, COLUMBIA, S.C.
Per: FAG contributor Tom Reece
*** After the siege of An Loc was lifted an effort was made to recover the bodies of American and South Vietnamese servicemen missing in action during the fighting. The wreckage of C-130E tail number 62-1797 was found and the crew remains repatriated by 17 Aug 1972 - but it took nearly two years, until 12 June 1974, for the remains of the six men to be individually identified.
The Virtual Wall knows the burial place of only one of the six men... Staff Sergeant Lester Bracey is buried in Site 5832, Section 2M, of the Long Island National Cemetery.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in me, your brother, sisters and those who knew you and loved you. You will live on because we remember you!
FREDDIE LEON SLATER - Air Force - SSGT - E5
Age: 34
Race: Negro
Date of Birth Apr 1, 1938 - Born in Prichard,AL.
Freddie Slater, "United States Social Security Death Index" - Birth Date: 1 April 1938
Social Security Number: 424-46-9718
State: Alabama
From: BALTIMORE, MD
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single - (No mention of Parents)Father,,and Mother, Frozine Slater (Alabama), Sister: Olethea Slater, and Daughter: Frozine Slater Morrow (VA BCH), and Son, Charlton Slater. living in Columbia, SC. Sister, Bernice Slater Frye living in Chicago, Il.
Maternal Grandparents: Walter C. Davis and Laura E. Dixon
***** Frozine Slater - Alabama Deaths
Name Frozine Slater
Event Date 26 Nov 1956
Event Place Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Gender Female
Age (Original) 52y
Birth Year (Estimated) 1904
Father's Name Walter C. Davis
Mother's Name Laura E. Dixon
***** We continue to search for your photo for inclusion in the Operation Remember project.
This project of remembrance will not be complete until we recover photos of all 1046 Sons of Maryland who made the ultimate sacrifice.
If visitors here have information or a photo please contact us at [email protected] It is our duty to remember.
Jim Gerity, Chairperson
Operation Remember
Vietnam Veterans of America
Baltimore, Chapter 451
**** Frozine Slater
United States Census, 1940
Name: Frozine Slater
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Prichard, Election Precinct 27, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Sex: Female
Age: 38
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: Negro
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Alabama
Birth Year (Estimated): 1902
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Frozine Slater Head Female 38 Alabama
Vera Slater Daughter Female 17 Alabama
Bernice Slater Daughter Female 15 Alabama
Walter Slater Son Male 10 Alabama
*** Freddie L Slater Son Male 7 Alabama
SSGT - E5 - Air Force - Regular
His tour began on Apr 30, 1972
Casualty was on May 3, 1972
In BINH LONG, SOUTH VIETNAM
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Air Force
Grade at loss: E5
Rank: Staff Sergeant
ID No: 424469718
Unit: 345TH TAC ALFT SQDN, 374TH TAC ALFT WING, 13TH AF
CASUALTY DATA
Casualty Date: 05/03/1972
Age at Loss: 34
Location: Binh Long Province, South Vietnam
Remains: 1972 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Repatriated: 08/17/1972 (Returned to US soil)
Identified: 06/12/1974
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Crew
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
Hostile, died while missing, FIXED WING - CREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered
Panel 01W - Line 13
Other Personnel in Incident: Lester Bracy (Bracey), Joseph Hopper, Alexander McIver, Don Unger, Thomas Widerquist, all remains recovered.
REMARKS: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED - ID'd 06/12/74
CACCF CRASH/AIRCREW/BINH LONG
SSgt. Slater served with the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, 13th Air Force.
On 3 May 1972, a C-130 was shot down while on a night drop mission near An Loc, SVN.
Six crewmen were killed.
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.
*** Brown Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, BROWN CHAPEL A.M.E. CEMETERY 282 - OFF ZION AVE. S OF BLUFF RD. IN ARTHURTOWN AREA. 808 BARNEST RD, COLUMBIA, S.C.
Per: FAG contributor Tom Reece
*** After the siege of An Loc was lifted an effort was made to recover the bodies of American and South Vietnamese servicemen missing in action during the fighting. The wreckage of C-130E tail number 62-1797 was found and the crew remains repatriated by 17 Aug 1972 - but it took nearly two years, until 12 June 1974, for the remains of the six men to be individually identified.
The Virtual Wall knows the burial place of only one of the six men... Staff Sergeant Lester Bracey is buried in Site 5832, Section 2M, of the Long Island National Cemetery.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in me, your brother, sisters and those who knew you and loved you. You will live on because we remember you!
FREDDIE LEON SLATER - Air Force - SSGT - E5
Age: 34
Race: Negro
Date of Birth Apr 1, 1938 - Born in Prichard,AL.
Freddie Slater, "United States Social Security Death Index" - Birth Date: 1 April 1938
Social Security Number: 424-46-9718
State: Alabama
From: BALTIMORE, MD
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single - (No mention of Parents)Father,,and Mother, Frozine Slater (Alabama), Sister: Olethea Slater, and Daughter: Frozine Slater Morrow (VA BCH), and Son, Charlton Slater. living in Columbia, SC. Sister, Bernice Slater Frye living in Chicago, Il.
Maternal Grandparents: Walter C. Davis and Laura E. Dixon
***** Frozine Slater - Alabama Deaths
Name Frozine Slater
Event Date 26 Nov 1956
Event Place Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Gender Female
Age (Original) 52y
Birth Year (Estimated) 1904
Father's Name Walter C. Davis
Mother's Name Laura E. Dixon
***** We continue to search for your photo for inclusion in the Operation Remember project.
This project of remembrance will not be complete until we recover photos of all 1046 Sons of Maryland who made the ultimate sacrifice.
If visitors here have information or a photo please contact us at [email protected] It is our duty to remember.
Jim Gerity, Chairperson
Operation Remember
Vietnam Veterans of America
Baltimore, Chapter 451
**** Frozine Slater
United States Census, 1940
Name: Frozine Slater
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Prichard, Election Precinct 27, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Sex: Female
Age: 38
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: Negro
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Alabama
Birth Year (Estimated): 1902
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Frozine Slater Head Female 38 Alabama
Vera Slater Daughter Female 17 Alabama
Bernice Slater Daughter Female 15 Alabama
Walter Slater Son Male 10 Alabama
*** Freddie L Slater Son Male 7 Alabama
SSGT - E5 - Air Force - Regular
His tour began on Apr 30, 1972
Casualty was on May 3, 1972
In BINH LONG, SOUTH VIETNAM
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Air Force
Grade at loss: E5
Rank: Staff Sergeant
ID No: 424469718
Unit: 345TH TAC ALFT SQDN, 374TH TAC ALFT WING, 13TH AF
CASUALTY DATA
Casualty Date: 05/03/1972
Age at Loss: 34
Location: Binh Long Province, South Vietnam
Remains: 1972 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Repatriated: 08/17/1972 (Returned to US soil)
Identified: 06/12/1974
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Crew
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
Hostile, died while missing, FIXED WING - CREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered
Panel 01W - Line 13
Other Personnel in Incident: Lester Bracy (Bracey), Joseph Hopper, Alexander McIver, Don Unger, Thomas Widerquist, all remains recovered.
REMARKS: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED - ID'd 06/12/74
CACCF CRASH/AIRCREW/BINH LONG
SSgt. Slater served with the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, 13th Air Force.
On 3 May 1972, a C-130 was shot down while on a night drop mission near An Loc, SVN.
Six crewmen were killed.
*******************************************
.
In Loving Memory of ... Staff Sergeant Freddie Leon Slater.
*** Brown Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, BROWN CHAPEL A.M.E. CEMETERY 282 - OFF ZION AVE. S OF BLUFF RD. IN ARTHURTOWN AREA. 808 BARNEST RD, COLUMBIA, S.C.
Per: FAG contributor Tom Reece
*** After the siege of An Loc was lifted an effort was made to recover the bodies of American and South Vietnamese servicemen missing in action during the fighting. The wreckage of C-130E tail number 62-1797 was found and the crew remains repatriated by 17 Aug 1972 - but it took nearly two years, until 12 June 1974, for the remains of the six men to be individually identified.
The Virtual Wall knows the burial place of only one of the six men... Staff Sergeant Lester Bracey is buried in Site 5832, Section 2M, of the Long Island National Cemetery.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in me, your brother, sisters and those who knew you and loved you. You will live on because we remember you!
FREDDIE LEON SLATER - Air Force - SSGT - E5
Age: 34
Race: Negro
Date of Birth Apr 1, 1938 - Born in Prichard,AL.
Freddie Slater, "United States Social Security Death Index" - Birth Date: 1 April 1938
Social Security Number: 424-46-9718
State: Alabama
From: BALTIMORE, MD
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single - (No mention of Parents)Father,,and Mother, Frozine Slater (Alabama), Sister: Olethea Slater, and Daughter: Frozine Slater Morrow (VA BCH), and Son, Charlton Slater. living in Columbia, SC. Sister, Bernice Slater Frye living in Chicago, Il.
Maternal Grandparents: Walter C. Davis and Laura E. Dixon
***** Frozine Slater - Alabama Deaths
Name Frozine Slater
Event Date 26 Nov 1956
Event Place Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Gender Female
Age (Original) 52y
Birth Year (Estimated) 1904
Father's Name Walter C. Davis
Mother's Name Laura E. Dixon
***** We continue to search for your photo for inclusion in the Operation Remember project.
This project of remembrance will not be complete until we recover photos of all 1046 Sons of Maryland who made the ultimate sacrifice.
If visitors here have information or a photo please contact us at [email protected] It is our duty to remember.
Jim Gerity, Chairperson
Operation Remember
Vietnam Veterans of America
Baltimore, Chapter 451
**** Frozine Slater
United States Census, 1940
Name: Frozine Slater
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Prichard, Election Precinct 27, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Sex: Female
Age: 38
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: Negro
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Alabama
Birth Year (Estimated): 1902
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Frozine Slater Head Female 38 Alabama
Vera Slater Daughter Female 17 Alabama
Bernice Slater Daughter Female 15 Alabama
Walter Slater Son Male 10 Alabama
*** Freddie L Slater Son Male 7 Alabama
SSGT - E5 - Air Force - Regular
His tour began on Apr 30, 1972
Casualty was on May 3, 1972
In BINH LONG, SOUTH VIETNAM
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Air Force
Grade at loss: E5
Rank: Staff Sergeant
ID No: 424469718
Unit: 345TH TAC ALFT SQDN, 374TH TAC ALFT WING, 13TH AF
CASUALTY DATA
Casualty Date: 05/03/1972
Age at Loss: 34
Location: Binh Long Province, South Vietnam
Remains: 1972 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Repatriated: 08/17/1972 (Returned to US soil)
Identified: 06/12/1974
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Crew
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
Hostile, died while missing, FIXED WING - CREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered
Panel 01W - Line 13
Other Personnel in Incident: Lester Bracy (Bracey), Joseph Hopper, Alexander McIver, Don Unger, Thomas Widerquist, all remains recovered.
REMARKS: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED - ID'd 06/12/74
CACCF CRASH/AIRCREW/BINH LONG
SSgt. Slater served with the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, 13th Air Force.
On 3 May 1972, a C-130 was shot down while on a night drop mission near An Loc, SVN.
Six crewmen were killed.
*******************************************
.
*** Brown Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, BROWN CHAPEL A.M.E. CEMETERY 282 - OFF ZION AVE. S OF BLUFF RD. IN ARTHURTOWN AREA. 808 BARNEST RD, COLUMBIA, S.C.
Per: FAG contributor Tom Reece
*** After the siege of An Loc was lifted an effort was made to recover the bodies of American and South Vietnamese servicemen missing in action during the fighting. The wreckage of C-130E tail number 62-1797 was found and the crew remains repatriated by 17 Aug 1972 - but it took nearly two years, until 12 June 1974, for the remains of the six men to be individually identified.
The Virtual Wall knows the burial place of only one of the six men... Staff Sergeant Lester Bracey is buried in Site 5832, Section 2M, of the Long Island National Cemetery.
You may be gone, no longer living on this earth; but you will live on - in the memories of your family and friends. There will always be a part of you living in me, your brother, sisters and those who knew you and loved you. You will live on because we remember you!
FREDDIE LEON SLATER - Air Force - SSGT - E5
Age: 34
Race: Negro
Date of Birth Apr 1, 1938 - Born in Prichard,AL.
Freddie Slater, "United States Social Security Death Index" - Birth Date: 1 April 1938
Social Security Number: 424-46-9718
State: Alabama
From: BALTIMORE, MD
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Single - (No mention of Parents)Father,,and Mother, Frozine Slater (Alabama), Sister: Olethea Slater, and Daughter: Frozine Slater Morrow (VA BCH), and Son, Charlton Slater. living in Columbia, SC. Sister, Bernice Slater Frye living in Chicago, Il.
Maternal Grandparents: Walter C. Davis and Laura E. Dixon
***** Frozine Slater - Alabama Deaths
Name Frozine Slater
Event Date 26 Nov 1956
Event Place Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Gender Female
Age (Original) 52y
Birth Year (Estimated) 1904
Father's Name Walter C. Davis
Mother's Name Laura E. Dixon
***** We continue to search for your photo for inclusion in the Operation Remember project.
This project of remembrance will not be complete until we recover photos of all 1046 Sons of Maryland who made the ultimate sacrifice.
If visitors here have information or a photo please contact us at [email protected] It is our duty to remember.
Jim Gerity, Chairperson
Operation Remember
Vietnam Veterans of America
Baltimore, Chapter 451
**** Frozine Slater
United States Census, 1940
Name: Frozine Slater
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Prichard, Election Precinct 27, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Sex: Female
Age: 38
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: Negro
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Alabama
Birth Year (Estimated): 1902
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Frozine Slater Head Female 38 Alabama
Vera Slater Daughter Female 17 Alabama
Bernice Slater Daughter Female 15 Alabama
Walter Slater Son Male 10 Alabama
*** Freddie L Slater Son Male 7 Alabama
SSGT - E5 - Air Force - Regular
His tour began on Apr 30, 1972
Casualty was on May 3, 1972
In BINH LONG, SOUTH VIETNAM
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Air Force
Grade at loss: E5
Rank: Staff Sergeant
ID No: 424469718
Unit: 345TH TAC ALFT SQDN, 374TH TAC ALFT WING, 13TH AF
CASUALTY DATA
Casualty Date: 05/03/1972
Age at Loss: 34
Location: Binh Long Province, South Vietnam
Remains: 1972 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Repatriated: 08/17/1972 (Returned to US soil)
Identified: 06/12/1974
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Crew
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
Hostile, died while missing, FIXED WING - CREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was recovered
Panel 01W - Line 13
Other Personnel in Incident: Lester Bracy (Bracey), Joseph Hopper, Alexander McIver, Don Unger, Thomas Widerquist, all remains recovered.
REMARKS: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED - ID'd 06/12/74
CACCF CRASH/AIRCREW/BINH LONG
SSgt. Slater served with the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, 13th Air Force.
On 3 May 1972, a C-130 was shot down while on a night drop mission near An Loc, SVN.
Six crewmen were killed.
*******************************************
.
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