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ALAN LEE BOYER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 8, 1946 – March 28, 1968
Service recordAlan Lee Boyer, of Missoula, Montana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 28, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 52
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Missoula, Montana (Missoula County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 28, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 52
- CLIFFORD LEROY WILLIAMSCorporal · March 27, 1968
- PEDER WALTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- PETER NELSON BALDWINSergeant · March 28, 1968
- JAMES LAVERN BOWMANPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE RONALD BROWNSergeant Major · Panel 46E, Line 53
- CHARLES GREGORY HUSTONStaff Sergeant · Panel 46E, Line 55
From Missoula
- WILLIAM LOUIS CYRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- JACOB FRANCIS STEPANCaptain · March 10, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM HAVRANEKLance Corporal · June 11, 1967
- DONALD ALEXANDER LEHUTALance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- DOUGLAS LAWRENCE FRIEDSergeant · September 25, 1967
- ANTHONY BLAKE CADWELLPrivate · October 17, 1967
- GEORGE PERCY KENDALL JRGunnery Sergeant · February 4, 1968
- LIONEL RUSSELL CRASELance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- ROBERT HUGH CARROLLMajor · May 12, 1968
- DAVID PATRICK SULLIVANSecond Lieutenant · September 4, 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.