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LOYD LINDAL MCBROOM
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 30, 1940 – March 25, 1967
Service recordLoyd Lindal McBroom, of Costa Mesa, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 46
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 30, 1940
- Home of record
- Costa Mesa, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault 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 17E, Line 46
- DOUGLAS EUGENE MOORESergeant · March 25, 1967
- JOHN WAYNE MOWERFirst Lieutenant · March 25, 1967
- GARY KEN NEWMANPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- FRANKIE DON WADESpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHTSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 44
- MICHAEL WILLIAM TWIGGSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 47
From Costa Mesa
- ERIC B SPEAKCorporal · February 15, 1967
- CHARLES RICHARD LEELieutenant Commander · July 9, 1967
- JERRALD LEROY EDWARDSLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ROGER KIMO YAMANAKALance Corporal · March 4, 1968
- DAVID KING OMSTEADFirst Lieutenant · June 16, 1968
- LEONARD ZACHARY GURWITZLance Corporal · August 12, 1968
- JAMES ODIS SPAWCorporal · August 18, 1968
- MICHAEL ROBERT MANGANSpecialist Four · August 21, 1968
- ROGER LOUIS BROWNSpecialist Five · January 1, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWIN ROWEStaff Sergeant · March 21, 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.