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BELTON LYLES JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 8, 1945 – October 28, 1965
Service recordBelton Lyles JR, of Carlisle, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 2
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Carlisle, South Carolina (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 2
- THOMAS MONROE CROWPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 1965
- JEFFRY LETSON KOCKRITZSergeant · October 28, 1965
- JAMES GEORGE LEECaptain · October 28, 1965
- LARRY PAUL LUSSIERPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM A SLAUGHTER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 1
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · Panel 3E, Line 2
- JEFFRY LETSON KOCKRITZSergeant · Panel 3E, Line 2
- LARRY PAUL LUSSIERPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 2
- ROGER MICHAEL MANNIESergeant · Panel 3E, Line 3
From Carlisle
- LEROY JOHNSONCorporal · April 29, 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.