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ROY BRADLEY BOYD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 27, 1948 – March 29, 1969
Service recordRoy Bradley Boyd, of Windsor, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 79
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Windsor, Missouri (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 79
- KENNETH JAMES BRENNERCorporal · March 29, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH CLARKStaff Sergeant · March 29, 1969
- JAMES BRADLEY CLAYBAUGHFirst Lieutenant · March 29, 1969
- ROBERT OWEN COLESpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN JOSEPH CLARKStaff Sergeant · Panel 28W, Line 79
- GLENN TEUGIO SHIBATACorporal · Panel 28W, Line 86
From Windsor
- WILLIAM THOMAS CRAWFORDAirman First Class · May 16, 1965
- WILLIAM PATRICK KELLYPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JAMES CLEVELAND TULLISSergeant · July 2, 1968
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.