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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allen Pasco.

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ALLEN PASCO

Major · U.S. Army

August 10, 1936 – July 6, 1968

Service record

Allen Pasco, of New York, New York, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on July 6, 1968, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 53W · Line 29

Position of Panel 53W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 10, 1936
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 6, 1968
Age
31
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date July 6, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 53W, Line 29

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.