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FLOYD TYRONE SPENCER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 23, 1943 – March 11, 1968
Service recordFloyd Tyrone Spencer, of High Point, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 21
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 23, 1943
- Home of record
- High Point, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 21
- MELVIN ARNOLD HOLLANDTechnical Sergeant · March 11, 1968
- PATRICK LEE SHANNONTechnical Sergeant · March 11, 1968
- DALE EDWARD SHIRLEYPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- DONALD KENNEBUNK SPRINGSTEADAHTechnical Sergeant · March 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD RITSICKPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 20
- DALE EDWARD SHIRLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 21
From High Point
- CHARLES CLAYBOURN COXSergeant · November 4, 1965
- VICKEY EARL STANLEYPrivate First Class · September 27, 1966
- PHILIP OWEN PARRISHPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
- JAMES EARL JENKINSPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- REMBERT CRAWFORD JRStaff Sergeant · February 5, 1968
- HASKER LEE NESBITT JRPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JOHN ULMER MCALISTERStaff Sergeant · May 23, 1968
- MILTON EUGENE FLOWERSCorporal · May 29, 1968
- RONALD LEE MABEPrivate First Class · May 29, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID HELMSTETLERFirst Lieutenant · June 19, 1968
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.