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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Noe Tameyoza.

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NOE TAMEYOZA

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 10, 1945 – November 2, 1968

Service record

Noe Tameyoza, of Baytown, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 10

Position of Panel 39W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
March 10, 1945
Home of record
Baytown, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 2, 1968
Age
23
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 10

From Baytown

All 14 names from Baytown →

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.