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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Lee Peggs.

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ALBERT LEE PEGGS

Corporal · U.S. Army

September 10, 1945 – December 4, 1968

Service record

Albert Lee Peggs, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 41

Position of Panel 37W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
September 10, 1945
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 4, 1968
Age
23
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 41

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.