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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 Joseph Lyle Farmer.

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JOSEPH LYLE FARMER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 3, 1943 – December 31, 1967

Service record

Joseph Lyle Farmer, of Clarksville, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 8

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
Born
March 3, 1943
Home of record
Clarksville, Tennessee (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 31, 1967
Age
24
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1967; ten of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Clarksville

All 23 names from Clarksville →

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.