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BRYFORD GLENN METOYER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 19, 1938 – January 18, 1964
Service recordBryford Glenn Metoyer, of Oakdale, Louisiana, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 18, 1964, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- UTT HELO CO
- Born
- December 19, 1938
- Home of record
- Oakdale, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1964
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1964. In January 1964, 14 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “UTT HELO CO”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
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
Also on Panel 1E, Line 42
- JOHN LEROY STRALEYPrivate First Class · January 18, 1964
- DAVID THOMPSONSergeant First Class · January 27, 1964
- ROBERT LYMAN TAYLORStaff Sergeant · February 1, 1964
- WILLIAM EUGENE JACKSONSergeant First Class · February 5, 1964
Same unit, same day
- JOHN LEROY STRALEYPrivate First Class · Panel 1E, Line 42
From Oakdale
- HERBERT TERRELL CROSSSecond Lieutenant · April 8, 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.