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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allan G Harper.

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ALLAN G HARPER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 30, 1950 – March 27, 1969

Service record

Allan G Harper, of Villa Rica, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 60

Position of Panel 28W 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 (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 30, 1950
Home of record
Villa Rica, Georgia (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 27, 1969
Age
18
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1969; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 156 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 60

Same unit, same day

From Villa Rica

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.