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ALTON DOYLE BYRD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 13, 1929 – September 16, 1970
Service recordAlton Doyle Byrd, of Beaumont, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 16, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Adps Repairman (34D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 13, 1929
- Home of record
- Beaumont, Mississippi (Perry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 16, 1970
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 68
- WILLIAM JOHNSON FRANKLINLance Corporal · September 16, 1970
- JOSEPH FRANK KEENEYPrivate · September 16, 1970
- DONALD LEE PERCYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1970
- HARRY ROBERT SCHETTLERSpecialist Five · September 16, 1970
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.