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ALLEN NEIL PALM
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 15, 1948 – December 5, 1968
Service recordAllen Neil Palm, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 47
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Greenville, Pennsylvania (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 47
- JOHN FRANCIS KANACZET JRLance Corporal · December 5, 1968
- GARY MAURICE OKEEFECorporal · December 5, 1968
- DAVID LEE ROBISONSergeant · December 5, 1968
- RAYMOND SINGLETONStaff Sergeant · December 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND SINGLETONStaff Sergeant · Panel 37W, Line 47
From Greenville
- PAUL WILLIAM BUSHFirst Lieutenant · March 22, 1968
- PAUL FREDERICK FOULKSpecialist Four · September 7, 1969
- STEPHEN ANDREW BEDNARSpecialist Four · July 15, 1971
- JOHN HENRY LOPOCHONSKY JRSpecialist Four · July 17, 1971
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.