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FLOYD LEON PITRE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 24, 1932 – June 11, 1969
Service recordFloyd Leon Pitre, of Opelousas, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 25
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
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 24, 1932
- Home of record
- Opelousas, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1969
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 25
- BOBBY GLENN OLIVERSergeant · June 11, 1969
- DUANE ELMER OLSONSpecialist Four · June 11, 1969
- EDWARD VINCENT PALMENTACorporal · June 11, 1969
- JOHN BOYD PARKERCorporal · June 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD MILTON BROWNStaff Sergeant · Panel 22W, Line 17
- RONALD GARY CROWEPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 19
- FRANK F DEMARIA JRSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 19
- CHARLES DEE GREENPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 20
- FREDDY LEE HOLLOWAYCorporal · Panel 22W, Line 21
- EDWARD JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 22
- JACK CHARLES LEESpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 22
- EDWARD VINCENT PALMENTACorporal · Panel 22W, Line 25
- DANIEL GEORGE REIDSergeant First Class · Panel 22W, Line 26
- KARL WILLIAM MILLSCaptain · Panel 22W, Line 27
- DOUGLAS LEE STRICKLANDSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 28
- JAMES CLARENCE STRUBECorporal · Panel 22W, Line 28
- TERRY LEE THORNTONPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 28
- BRUCE HAROLD TIBBETTSPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 28
- CLARK LEE VERN WILLIAMSCorporal · Panel 22W, Line 29
From Opelousas
- EDWARD EUGENE ANDERSONPrivate First Class · October 17, 1966
- JESSIE RICHARDSONStaff Sergeant · November 16, 1966
- ABRAHAM JACKSONSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
- FOSTER LEE SONNIERSpecialist Four · May 6, 1969
- CHARLES EDWARD JOHNSONPrivate First Class · July 27, 1969
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.