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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Marion Walter.

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ALBERT MARION WALTER

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

August 3, 1929 – August 23, 1968

Service record

Albert Marion Walter, of Organ, New Mexico, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47W · Line 57

Position of Panel 47W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
August 3, 1929
Home of record
Organ, New Mexico (Dona Ana County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 23, 1968
Age
39
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47W, Line 57

Same unit, same day

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.