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ALBERT HEUGH SMITH
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 12, 1932 – January 16, 1967
Service recordAlbert Heugh Smith, of Kelso, Washington, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 16, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 39
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 12, 1932
- Home of record
- Kelso, Washington (Cowlitz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 16, 1967
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date January 16, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 39
- KENNETH WARREN TEETERSpecialist Five · January 15, 1967
- DOUGLAS MCARTHUR THOMASPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- ARTHUR DOUGLAS WASHINGTONSpecialist Four · January 15, 1967
- GARY LEE LININGERPrivate First Class · January 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES LEE ROGERSStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 40
- LOWELL ASTLEY WOLFRIESStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 41
From Kelso
- DALE LYNN KRUSEPetty Officer Third Class · April 30, 1968
- KEITH OLSENSpecialist Four · June 20, 1969
- DONALD HUGH BLOOMERStaff Sergeant · April 1, 1970
- WILLIAM DALE SECORSergeant · July 2, 1970
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.