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ALLAN ROBERT TYLER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 1, 1946 – November 4, 1968
Service recordAllan Robert Tyler, of Des Plaines, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Communitions Chief (31G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Des Plaines, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 4, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1968; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 19
- TIMOTHY HOWARD WEAKSPrivate First Class · November 4, 1968
- BARNEY JOE WHITESpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
- BILLIE WELDON WILKINSONSergeant First Class · November 4, 1968
- HERBERT WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · November 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- OTIS RAYMOND SIMPSONSpecialist Five · Panel 39W, Line 18
From Des Plaines
- LEONARD J LEWANDOWSKI JRSergeant · October 19, 1966
- JAMES THOMAS RENZPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- ROBERT EDWIN MATSONSpecialist Four · January 21, 1967
- MICHAEL STEVEN BRYANTPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- RALPH LAURENCE CARLOCKMajor · March 4, 1967
- JAMES MILTON ALBRIGHTLieutenant · March 10, 1967
- DONALD EDWARD WALTERS JRPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- JAMES T DONAHUE JRWarrant Officer 1 · September 22, 1967
- THOMAS PATRICK KLAUSINGPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- BRIAN JEFFREY CANNADAPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
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.