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ALLEN EDWIN OLSON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 3, 1948 – February 20, 1969
Service recordAllen Edwin Olson, of Deerfield, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 67
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Deerfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 67
- RICHARD EUGENE PARKERLance Corporal · February 20, 1969
- ROGER LEE PIFERPrivate First Class · February 20, 1969
- JUNIOR FLOYD RONIGERSergeant · February 20, 1969
- MICHAEL WILSONPrivate First Class · February 20, 1969
From Deerfield
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- JOSEPH WILLIAM DEROSAPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- WILLIAM GREGORY LANDONPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- ROGER ZIMMERMANStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- WILLIAM ERIC SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.