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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Floyd Russell Noe.

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FLOYD RUSSELL NOE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 29, 1947 – July 12, 1967

Service record

Floyd Russell Noe, of Huntington, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 12, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 62

Position of Panel 23E 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
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
October 29, 1947
Home of record
Huntington, Indiana (Huntington County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 12, 1967
Age
19
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1967; 34 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 62

Same unit, same day

From Huntington

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.