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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alan Leslie Seamans.

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ALAN LESLIE SEAMANS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 10, 1949 – October 13, 1967

Service record

Alan Leslie Seamans, of Grafton, New Hampshire, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1967, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 98

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Born
June 10, 1949
Home of record
Grafton, New Hampshire

Casualty

Date of death
October 13, 1967
Age
18
Added to the Wall
2014

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 98

Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2014, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.