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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Edward Floyd JR.

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PAUL EDWARD FLOYD JR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 8, 1934 – October 14, 1966

Service record

Paul Edward Floyd JR, of Clinton, Massachusetts, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 73

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 8, 1934
Home of record
Clinton, Massachusetts (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 14, 1966
Age
32
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 14, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 55 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 73

From Clinton

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.