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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Claude Tyler Turner.

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CLAUDE TYLER TURNER

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 14, 1938 – January 29, 1966

Service record

Claude Tyler Turner, of Wilmer, Alabama, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 116

Position of Panel 4E 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 14, 1938
Home of record
Wilmer, Alabama (Mobile County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 29, 1966
Age
27
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 131 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 116

Same unit, same day

From Wilmer

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.