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LLOYD ALLEN HIMES
Sergeant Major · U.S. Army
May 8, 1930 – January 31, 1968
Service recordLloyd Allen Himes, of Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant Major (SGM)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 8, 1930
- Home of record
- Rimersburg, Pennsylvania (Clarion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. 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 36E, Line 15
- TROY EDWARD HIRNI IISpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- MICHAEL LEONARD HOLIDAYSergeant · January 31, 1968
- LUEY VERNON HOLLANDSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- IVAN D HOMSLEYPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARCHIE BURNETTE JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 89
- HAROLD EDWARD CASHMAN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 2
- WYATT CECIL GORDONSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 4
- GARY W HANNAWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 12
- RICHARD FALCON DELGADOSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 21
- WILLIAM ROBERT LEEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 21
- DAVID LLOYD PARKERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 29
- DAMON LIGOURI RITCHIECorporal · Panel 36E, Line 32
- DAVID OWEN ROBERTSSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 33
- CLIFTON DOUGLAS ROYCorporal · Panel 36E, Line 33
- DAVID LEE TURNERCorporal · Panel 36E, Line 40
- MELVIN JOE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 42
From Rimersburg
- DOYLE LEROY BUTLER JRSecond Lieutenant · February 11, 1968
- GARY GERALD GRAYPrivate First Class · August 26, 1969
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.