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LLOYD PATTERSON HYDE
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
March 19, 1938 – October 26, 1966
Service recordLloyd Patterson Hyde, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 26, 1966, in North Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 111
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Medical Corps (2105)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- March 19, 1938
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 26, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 111
- CHARLES THOMAS HAFENDORFERCaptain · May 19, 1966
- JACK HAROLD HARRISCommander · October 26, 1966
- GREG EUGENE HARTAirman Apprentice · October 26, 1966
- JAMES BRIAN HUDISLieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- CLYDE RAY WELCHCommander · October 26, 1966
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE JAY FREUNDPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 11E, Line 109
- DANIEL LEROY STRONGLieutenant Commander · Panel 11E, Line 116
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 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.