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RAYMOND ALLEN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 12, 1937 – March 9, 1966
Service recordRaymond Allen, of Rossville, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 130
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 12, 1937
- Home of record
- Rossville, Georgia (Walker County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 5E, Line 130
- NOLAN FRANKLIN DREWRYStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1966
- HUGH WALLACE MERRILLSpecialist Four · March 8, 1966
- FRANCIS THOMAS CLARKINSergeant · March 9, 1966
- JON IRVING CLIFFORDPrivate · March 9, 1966
Same unit, same day
- BILLIE ALLEN HALLStaff Sergeant · Panel 5E, Line 132
- PHILLIP THOMAS STAHLSpecialist Five · Panel 5E, Line 134
From Rossville
- BILLIE HAYWOOD SMITHSpecialist Four · August 1, 1966
- GARY EDWIN WARDPrivate First Class · January 29, 1967
- MARION ELIJAH PATRICKPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- JOHN ALVIN FRANKLINSergeant · April 26, 1968
- DENNIS CAROL MELTONSpecialist Four · June 6, 1968
- ANTHONY IRVIN LEECorporal · July 9, 1968
- JIMMY TONY MORRISPrivate First Class · August 26, 1969
- WILLIAM LARRY BYRDCaptain · June 6, 1970
- SCOTT E KILLINGSWORTHSpecialist Four · June 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.