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DOYLE EUGENE SALLEE
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 18, 1947 – November 12, 1968
Service recordDoyle Eugene Sallee, of Lafayette, Indiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 56
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Indiana (Tippecanoe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 56
- HENRY LEWIS NIXPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- RUSSELL KEVIN OGDENSpecialist Four · November 12, 1968
- RONALD LEE REEDPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- WILLIAM HAYS SCHAEFERCorporal · November 12, 1968
From Lafayette
- ROBERT LEE MANNCaptain · October 22, 1965
- JAMES DARRYL BASHAMPrivate First Class · September 7, 1966
- CHARLES ALLEN KNOCHELLieutenant · September 22, 1966
- ROBERT JOE HARDESTYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1966
- DAVID LEROY HOWARDPrivate First Class · September 14, 1967
- WILLIAM ROBERT JENNETTSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- THOMAS HAROLD NERINIPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- RANDELL HOOD LOYSpecialist Four · September 4, 1968
- STEVEN RANDALL BROOKSLance Corporal · September 13, 1968
- DENNIS WRAY CRIPELance Corporal · February 20, 1969
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.