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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 Floyd Graham JR.

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FLOYD GRAHAM JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 9, 1943 – December 3, 1968

Service record

Floyd Graham JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 32

Position of Panel 37W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
April 9, 1943
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 3, 1968
Age
25
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.