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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Floyd Wynn.

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FLOYD WYNN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 10, 1943 – February 10, 1965

Service record

Floyd Wynn, of Siler, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 92

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
Born
January 10, 1943
Home of record
Siler, Kentucky (Whitley County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 10, 1965
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1965. In February 1965, 54 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 92

From Siler

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.