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LOYDE DEAN ARMOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 14, 1944 – January 10, 1968
Service recordLoyde Dean Armor, of Broseley, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Aircraft Structural Repairer (68G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 615 TRANS DET 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- April 14, 1944
- Home of record
- Broseley, Missouri (Butler County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “615 TRANS DET 52 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 13
- ARNOLD GORDON ABELCorporal · January 10, 1968
- FRANCIS HOWARD ANDRYSIAKPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
- EDWARD WILLIAM ARGYFirst Lieutenant · January 10, 1968
- NORMAN WILLIAM BATESPrivate · January 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS CARPENTER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 15
- RICHARD DANIEL DEVINE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 17
From Broseley
- MICHAEL RAY GOINSPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
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.