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ALLEN H ARCHER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 19, 1937 – March 22, 1967
Service recordAllen H Archer, of Rutland, Vermont, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 16
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 19, 1937
- Home of record
- Rutland, Vermont (Rutland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 16
- THEODORE R WOODS JRCorporal · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES C ANDERSON JRCaptain · March 22, 1967
- ALAN WAYNE ANDREWSSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- FLOYD BARKER JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
From Rutland
- EDWARD ARNOLD BIRMINGHAMPlatoon Sergeant · October 2, 1967
- JOSEPH KENNETH FISHLance Corporal · February 19, 1968
- JOSEPH ANTHONY SILVAFirst Lieutenant · September 26, 1970
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.