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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 Roy Lee Felty.

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ROY LEE FELTY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 29, 1948 – August 6, 1969

Service record

Roy Lee Felty, of Brooklyn, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 6, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 20W · Line 101

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
October 29, 1948
Home of record
Brooklyn, Kentucky (Butler County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 6, 1969
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date August 6, 1969; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

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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.