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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 Douglas Lloyd.

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DOUGLAS LLOYD

Master Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 4, 1929 – May 28, 1967

Service record

Douglas Lloyd, of Cornelius, North Carolina, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 5

Position of Panel 21E 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
Master Sergeant (MSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
June 4, 1929
Home of record
Cornelius, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1967
Age
37
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 5

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.