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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Archie Hubert Iyua JR.

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ARCHIE HUBERT IYUA JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 3, 1946 – March 11, 1969

Service record

Archie Hubert Iyua JR, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 10

Position of Panel 29W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
A BTRY 2 BN 32 ARTY
Born
March 3, 1946
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 11, 1969
Age
23
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1969; ten of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 10

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.