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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lloyd Bruce Jensen.

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LLOYD BRUCE JENSEN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 14, 1943 – December 12, 1966

Service record

Lloyd Bruce Jensen, of Boise, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 38

Position of Panel 13E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
March 14, 1943
Home of record
Boise, Idaho (Ada County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 12, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 38

Same unit, same day

From Boise

All 29 names from Boise →

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.