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ALLEN LEWIS BONEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 12, 1947 – May 14, 1970
Service recordAllen Lewis Boney, of Warsaw, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · 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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Warsaw, North Carolina (Duplin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 40
- JAMES CHARLES DAIGLEStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1970
- GARY MARK DOMINIQUEPrivate First Class · May 14, 1970
- STEEN BRUCE FOSTERStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1970
- LAWRENCE RAYMOND GEIGERSergeant · May 14, 1970
Same unit, same day
- STEEN BRUCE FOSTERStaff Sergeant · Panel 10W, Line 40
- JAMES LEE LOISELCorporal · Panel 10W, Line 42
From Warsaw
- LITCHFIELD PATTERSON HUIELieutenant · February 27, 1967
- CHARLES GREY COSTINSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
- CLARENCE LEON MCNEILLSergeant · February 5, 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.