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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hervey Harris Allen.

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HERVEY HARRIS ALLEN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 28, 1948 – May 31, 1967

Service record

Hervey Harris Allen, of Richmond, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 31, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 20

Position of Panel 21E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 28, 1948
Home of record
Richmond, Virginia (Richmond (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 31, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Richmond

All 113 names from Richmond →

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.