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SHELDON EUGENE BLOYER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 6, 1934 – February 18, 1968
Service recordSheldon Eugene Bloyer, of Portage, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 1
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1934
- Home of record
- Portage, Indiana (Porter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 1
- TERRY LAWRENCE BOYCEPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- TOMMIE BRANDONPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- CHARLIE ARUCE BRATCHERSpecialist Four · February 18, 1968
- JOEL KENTON BROWNCorporal · February 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES JOSEPH PATRIZIOSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 9
- MARVIN HALL TERRYPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 14
From Portage
- ROBERT JOSEPH HALLSpecialist Five · February 27, 1967
- LAWRENCE EDWARD GIBSONStaff Sergeant · February 14, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES WILSONSpecialist Four · July 7, 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.