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ROY RANSOM ALLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 7, 1946 – March 21, 1966
Service recordRoy Ransom Allen, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 27
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 27
- JOHN RICHARD TURNERLance Corporal · March 20, 1966
- JOHN ANTHONY VERGALLITOStaff Sergeant · March 20, 1966
- LOSSY RAY WANGLERLance Corporal · March 20, 1966
- LOUIS ALLEN AMBROSEPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- TERRY L HARPERSpecialist Four · Panel 6E, Line 32
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
- SIM HENRY RIGGINS JRPrivate First Class · July 19, 1966
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.