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HAROLD LLOYD MONTANA
Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 18, 1933 – January 15, 1967
Service recordHarold Lloyd Montana, of Tampa, Florida, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- April 18, 1933
- Home of record
- Tampa, Florida (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1967
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 32
- NATHANIEL BULLOCKPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- ERNEST WOODY CADELL JRPrivate First Class · January 15, 1967
- JAMES WARREN CAHALLSpecialist Four · January 15, 1967
- JAMES GRANT CALLENCorporal · January 15, 1967
From Tampa
- THOMAS ISAAC LEDBETTERCaptain · June 19, 1964
- HENRY JOSEPH GALLANTMaster Sergeant · July 13, 1965
- JOHN BELL JRLance Corporal · August 18, 1965
- ERICH SIMKAITISSpecialist Five · September 9, 1965
- LAURENCE MICHAEL KINGCorporal · September 28, 1965
- MACK CECIL COXSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GUY HECTOR MCCAREYMajor · November 27, 1965
- RICHIE HUMES SCHMITTLance Corporal · December 9, 1965
- JOHNNIE GRANTSpecialist Four · February 7, 1966
- ISIAH FOSTERLance Corporal · March 23, 1966
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.