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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 Llewellyn Antonio Smith.

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LLEWELLYN ANTONIO SMITH

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 3, 1946 – September 15, 1966

Service record

Llewellyn Antonio Smith, of St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 98

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 3, 1946
Home of record
St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (St Thomas County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 51 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 98

Same unit, same day

From St Thomas

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.