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SAMMY FLOYD ISAACS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 4, 1951 – March 13, 1971
Service recordSammy Floyd Isaacs, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1971, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 44
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- July 4, 1951
- Home of record
- Stilwell, Oklahoma (Adair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1971; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 44
- ROBERT SAYE GOOD JRSpecialist Four · March 13, 1971
- WILLIAM JOHN HAMMERSpecialist Four · March 13, 1971
- EDDIE WAYNE VENCILLSpecialist Four · March 13, 1971
- JAMES CRAIG WARDStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1971
From Stilwell
- EDWARD EUGENE CHRISTIEPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- JOE C KELLEYPrivate First Class · October 1, 1966
- DALE EDWARD SHIRLEYPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- ALFRED LEE BRADLEYSergeant · September 25, 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.