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ELVIN L ALLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 4, 1941 – March 8, 1968
Service recordElvin L Allen, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 51
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- April 4, 1941
- Home of record
- Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 51
- CRAIG ALAN ARNDTSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- JOHN DOUGLAS BEAVERPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- BERNARD BONEYSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM BORDERS JRPetty Officer Second Class · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLEMENT BRADLEY GRUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 54
- EDUARDO JIMENEZPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 55
- WILLIAM T PUFFENBARGERPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 59
- DAVID MACK REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 59
- MARVIN NELSON RICHARDSONSpecialist Five · Panel 43E, Line 59
- JOHN EDGAR SEVERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 60
- LARRY RAY REDMONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 61
- JAMES PERRY SINGLETONSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 61
- HAROLD EVERETT WALKER JRSpecialist Five · Panel 43E, Line 63
- DALE KEITH WILSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 43E, Line 63
From Kansas City
- PATRICK PEARSE MANNINGPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- FRANK ALLEN GIVENPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- MICHAEL STEVENS HARRISPrivate First Class · December 9, 1965
- LESTER A ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · February 28, 1966
- JEROME NIXONPrivate First Class · March 23, 1966
- CHARLES R LAWHONWarrant Officer 1 · May 6, 1966
- JAMES PAUL DEBRULERPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- DAYTON WILLIAM RAGLANDColonel · May 31, 1966
- ROBERT WILLIAM PECKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- EUGENE JOLLYSpecialist Five · July 11, 1966
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.