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FERDINAND STROYE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 19, 1947 – November 28, 1968
Service recordFerdinand Stroye, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 28, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 2
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 28, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date November 28, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 2
- JOHN HAROLD ROACHPrivate First Class · November 28, 1968
- RUSSELL LAMAR SMITHPrivate First Class · November 28, 1968
- WALTER STUCKEYSpecialist Four · November 28, 1968
- ANDREW JAMES TOPORCER JRCorporal · November 28, 1968
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.