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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alvie Clinton Wyatt.

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ALVIE CLINTON WYATT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 7, 1945 – January 11, 1967

Service record

Alvie Clinton Wyatt, of Walnut Grove, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 13

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Petroleum Storage Specialist (56C)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
November 7, 1945
Home of record
Walnut Grove, California (Sacramento County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 11, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

From Walnut Grove

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.