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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Stewart Boyd.

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DAVID STEWART BOYD

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

August 19, 1933 – November 14, 1966

Service record

David Stewart Boyd, of Mt Vernon, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 70

Position of Panel 12E 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 First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
August 19, 1933
Home of record
Mt Vernon, New York (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 14, 1966
Age
33
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date November 14, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 70

Same unit, same day

  • JOHN MAYOSpecialist Four · Panel 12E, Line 71

From Mt Vernon

All 16 names from Mt Vernon →

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.