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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 Burlon Talmage Honeycutt.

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BURLON TALMAGE HONEYCUTT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 16, 1944 – March 14, 1967

Service record

Burlon Talmage Honeycutt, of Clayton, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 14, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 79

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
December 16, 1944
Home of record
Clayton, North Carolina (Johnston County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 14, 1967
Age
22
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date March 14, 1967; seven of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 79

Same unit, same day

From Clayton

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.