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LLOYD EARL VALENTINE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 31, 1941 – September 5, 1968
Service recordLloyd Earl Valentine, of Unionville, Missouri, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 45
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 31, 1941
- Home of record
- Unionville, Missouri (Putnam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 45
- LIONEL ALVAREZ RYANPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- JOSEPH EWING SMITHSergeant · September 5, 1968
- EUGENE HENRY STEPPPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- RAYMOND VINCENT STOLPASergeant · September 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES HERBERT HARDISONPrivate · Panel 45W, Line 41
- ROBERT LEROY JORDAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 42
- BOBBY JACK PAPPANSergeant · Panel 45W, Line 43
- ALBERT LEONARD RICKERSONSergeant · Panel 45W, Line 44
- FRED PLYMOUTH RUGHPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 44
- RAYMOND VINCENT STOLPASergeant · Panel 45W, Line 45
From Unionville
- ROBERT VOYD LEECHPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
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.