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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 Alan Ray Graham.

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ALAN RAY GRAHAM

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 28, 1948 – February 22, 1969

Service record

Alan Ray Graham, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32W · Line 78

Position of Panel 32W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
February 28, 1948
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1969
Age
20
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1969; five of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32W, Line 78

Same unit, same day

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.