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ALLEN STEARNS FARNHAM
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 2, 1942 – December 30, 1968
Service recordAllen Stearns Farnham, of Brookfield, Connecticut, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 30, 1968, in Chuong Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 8
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 2, 1942
- Home of record
- Brookfield, Connecticut (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 30, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Chuong Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chuong Thien Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 8
- GARY WILLIAM BOUGHNERSpecialist Four · December 30, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT BOYLESergeant · December 30, 1968
- ELTON BRADLEY COLLINSCorporal · December 30, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD COUCHSergeant · December 30, 1968
From Brookfield
- DENNIS GILBERT TAYLORPrivate First Class · August 9, 1966
- FRANK ANTHONY AZZARITO JRPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
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.