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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 Eddie James Allen.

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EDDIE JAMES ALLEN

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

September 10, 1932 – August 22, 1967

Service record

Eddie James Allen, of Richmond, Indiana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 27

Position of Panel 25E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 10, 1932
Home of record
Richmond, Indiana (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 22, 1967
Age
34
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 27

Same unit, same day

From Richmond

All 30 names from Richmond →

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.