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ALEXANDER LEO MAYER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 3, 1942 – April 2, 1967
Service recordAlexander Leo Mayer, of Choctaw, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 93
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1942
- Home of record
- Choctaw, Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 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 93
- JOHN FRANCIS DANIELS JRCorporal · April 2, 1967
- PETER ALAN LAMONTSergeant · April 2, 1967
- FRANCIS M LAWRENCE JRLance Corporal · April 2, 1967
- WILLIAM PAUL MARTINSergeant · April 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RALPH CHARLES HUTHPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 92
- ALVIN CHARLES MCMANN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 94
From Choctaw
- JOHNNIE LEE SLOANPrivate First Class · September 28, 1965
- DELTON EUGENE TERRYAirman · July 29, 1967
- JAMES CLAIR WILSONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- GARY LANE BARNUMPrivate First Class · March 22, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE KIDDSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- ALLEN THOMAS WHITEPrivate First Class · April 23, 1970
- ALLEN JAY SMITHCorporal · October 15, 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.