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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 Albert Marshall Guyer.

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ALBERT MARSHALL GUYER

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

August 24, 1942 – April 8, 1967

Service record

Albert Marshall Guyer, of Kansas City, Kansas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 126

Position of Panel 17E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
August 24, 1942
Home of record
Kansas City, Kansas (Wyandotte County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 8, 1967
Age
24
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.

He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. 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 17E, Line 126

Same unit, same day

From Kansas City

All 55 names from Kansas City →

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.