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NOLAN DARYL BYRD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 22, 1948 – December 3, 1968
Service recordNolan Daryl Byrd, of Hagerstown, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 29
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- September 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Hagerstown, Maryland (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 29
- JOSEPH THOMAS BURSIS JRPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
- CLAUD WILLIAM CAPRAROCorporal · December 3, 1968
- ROBERT ARTHUR CARNEYFirst Lieutenant · December 3, 1968
- HARVEY WILLIAM CARTERSpecialist Four · December 3, 1968
From Hagerstown
- EDWARD RALPH GLENN JRSpecialist Four · January 17, 1967
- DOUGLAS LEE TRACYCorporal · January 26, 1967
- RALPH PRESTON FLINT JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1967
- HARRY LEE WATKINS JRSergeant · January 9, 1968
- HUGH JULIUS RONNEBERGCorporal · March 18, 1970
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.