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ALLEN GEIB
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 7, 1945 – January 26, 1968
Service recordAllen Geib, of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 26, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 40
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Fair Lawn, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968; eight of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 40
- ROBERT RISLEY FRYERPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- ROBERT ALFRED GATESPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- JIMMY LEROY JOHNSON JRSergeant · January 26, 1968
- BYRON CLIFTON LOLLARPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROGER LEROY BEAMSpecialist Five · Panel 35E, Line 36
- BYRON CLIFTON LOLLARPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 40
From Fair Lawn
- ROBERT CHARLES HAUSERPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- PATRICK FRANCIS CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · October 8, 1966
- JOHN MICHAEL LAMANNAPrivate First Class · February 1, 1969
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM MAHURTERPrivate First Class · April 27, 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.