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LONNIE ALLEN FLOYD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 29, 1947 – January 14, 1967
Service recordLonnie Allen Floyd, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 14, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 27
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Finance Specialist (73C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 14, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 14E, Line 27
- ROGER PAUL GALLANTStaff Sergeant · January 14, 1967
- JOHN FRANK RAY GRIEGOCorporal · January 14, 1967
- JEROME ALFRED HAGENSeaman Apprentice · January 14, 1967
- FERRELL HUMMINGBIRDLance Corporal · January 14, 1967
From Chattanooga
- JIMMY RICHARD GRIFFINSergeant · March 22, 1963
- GEORGE WILLIS MARTINSergeant First Class · October 11, 1964
- ARTHUR EUGENE NORMANAirman Second Class · January 16, 1965
- GLENN HOWELL KELLEYSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- JAMES T GRAYSergeant · April 24, 1965
- VIRGIL KIRKLAND JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- KENNETH LEON STANCILChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 28, 1965
- ELIJAH GOAR TOLLETT JRMajor · January 12, 1966
- RAPHNELL J MERONEYSergeant · January 29, 1966
- BILLY BROWN DAYPrivate · February 22, 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.