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LYLE CLINT PALMER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 21, 1943 – May 12, 1969
Service recordLyle Clint Palmer, of Blanding, Utah, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 79
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Blanding, Utah (San Juan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 79
- JOSEPH PATRICK MCKNIGHTPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- ROY LEE NATIONSPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- DAVID RUSSELL NEFFSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- JOSEPH ANTHONY NURZYNSKISpecialist Five · May 12, 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.