The Wall › Panel 17W › West Virginia › Albert Harold Altizer
ALBERT HAROLD ALTIZER
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 11, 1949 – October 8, 1969
Service recordAlbert Harold Altizer, of Squire, West Virginia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 49
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 11, 1949
- Home of record
- Squire, West Virginia (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.
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 17W, Line 49
- JOSEPH HENNING BENSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1969
- WILLIAM FORREST DAVISSpecialist Five · October 8, 1969
- CLAUDE ERNEST ELLARD JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1969
- JAMES LEE GASSELINGSergeant · October 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH HENNING BENSONPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 49
- JEROME MILTON TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 53
From Squire
- LORN DAVID COMPTONSpecialist Four · April 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.