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ANDRE ROLAND GUILLET
Senior Master Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
December 17, 1943 – May 18, 1966
Service recordAndre Roland Guillet, of Waterbury, Connecticut, served as a Senior Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on May 18, 1966, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 81
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Senior Master Sergeant (SMSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ground Radio Communications Technician (30474)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 606 ACS
- Born
- December 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Waterbury, Connecticut (New Haven County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 18, 1966
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 81
- CLARENCE E HAGEYSpecialist Four · May 18, 1966
- LEE DUFFORD HARLEYMajor · May 18, 1966
- BURNIE HARRISStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1966
- RONALD EUGENE HARRISONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
From Waterbury
- WILLIAM JOSEPH OAKLEYPrivate First Class · May 28, 1965
- RICHARD MICHAEL FACONDINIPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- JOHN FRANCIS SAMPTPrivate First Class · February 17, 1966
- JUNIOR WILKERSONPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- MICHAEL AARON KIGHTWarrant Officer 1 · May 19, 1967
- BROMLEY HOWARD GERMANFirst Lieutenant · January 6, 1968
- JOHN PATRICK CULLINANSecond Lieutenant · January 10, 1968
- GEORGE A LUBESKY JRSergeant · February 1, 1968
- RAY LEONARD FERRY IIILance Corporal · April 9, 1968
- LENWOOD THOMAS HARRELLPrivate First Class · May 5, 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.