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DOYLE FOSTER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 15, 1936 – March 25, 1971
Service recordDoyle Foster, of Oneida, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 76
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
- Aircraft Maintenance Senior Sergeant (67Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- September 15, 1936
- Home of record
- Oneida, Tennessee (Scott County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1971
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1971; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 76
- CHRIS BROWN JRSpecialist Four · March 25, 1971
- EDWIN GERALD CALHOUNSergeant · March 25, 1971
- MAXIMINO ESTRADALance Corporal · March 25, 1971
- GARY GEORGE GEIGERSpecialist Four · March 25, 1971
Same unit, same day
- R D MCDONELLStaff Sergeant · Panel 4W, Line 77
- MANUEL RAMERIZ PUENTESStaff Sergeant · Panel 4W, Line 78
- RICHARD JOSEPH ROSSANOCorporal · Panel 4W, Line 78
- RANDALL ALAN THOMPSONCorporal · Panel 4W, Line 78
- ROBERT LEE WUNDERPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 78
From Oneida
- WILLIAM LOUIS COFFEYSergeant First Class · March 6, 1971
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.