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ALLEN EARL NOBLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 14, 1951 – July 17, 1971
Service recordAllen Earl Noble, of Thomasville, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1971, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 109
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ah-1 Attack Helicopter Repairer (67Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 14, 1951
- Home of record
- Thomasville, Alabama (Clarke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 17, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1971; three of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 109
- ALLEN JOHN DYERWarrant Officer 1 · July 17, 1971
- JOHN HENRY LOPOCHONSKY JRSpecialist Four · July 17, 1971
- GREGORY IRVING SAHLBERGSpecialist Four · July 17, 1971
- JAY STEVEN ASTONWarrant Officer 1 · July 18, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ALLEN JOHN DYERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 3W, Line 109
- JOHN HENRY LOPOCHONSKY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 3W, Line 109
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.