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LYLE GLENN ASTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 15, 1947 – March 30, 1969
Service recordLyle Glenn Aston, of Glen Easton, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Glen Easton, West Virginia (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; 13 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 88
- THOMAS ARTHUR WIESECorporal · March 29, 1969
- MICHAEL LEE WILKINSSpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
- ELMER EDWARD BARRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- RAYMOND BROWNSergeant · March 30, 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.