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ALLEN LANE WINTERS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 10, 1948 – January 31, 1968
Service recordAllen Lane Winters, of Adrian, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Adrian, Michigan (Lenawee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 34 of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
He died in Bien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 43
- ROBERT JOE WILLIAMSONSergeant · January 31, 1968
- DAVID RALPH WILSONFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- JOSEPH ROBERT WISEMajor · January 31, 1968
- JERRY RUSS WOODALLCaptain · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED JOHN LEWISPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 2
- FLETCHER LEON LEWISSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 4
- RICHARD WALKER HARPERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 12
- DENNY MILBURN JACKSONSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 17
From Adrian
- G LYLE STETTENSpecialist Four · January 11, 1967
- WAYNE JACOB GAUTZPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
- DAVID LEE ADAMSPrivate First Class · May 31, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT DAWSONSecond Lieutenant · October 27, 1967
- HUGH DON SCOTTCorporal · November 18, 1967
- FLOYD ALLAN HYDERCorporal · November 21, 1967
- DALE L E DAVISSergeant · February 15, 1968
- GEORGE LEE CARRPrivate First Class · July 28, 1968
- MICHAEL KELLY THOMPSONCaptain · March 21, 1969
- DUANE RICHARD KEILSergeant · July 3, 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.