The Wall › Panel 26E › South Dakota › Theodore Harold Voigt
THEODORE HAROLD VOIGT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 20, 1944 – September 9, 1967
Service recordTheodore Harold Voigt, of Wolsey, South Dakota, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 9, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 41
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 20, 1944
- Home of record
- Wolsey, South Dakota (Beadle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 9, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date September 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26E, Line 41
- ARLON DANIEL WALL JRAirman First Class · September 9, 1967
- GERALD F P WENDEROTHPrivate First Class · September 9, 1967
- JUAN ALMANZAGunnery Sergeant · September 10, 1967
- LEO CURTIS AUKLANDLance Corporal · September 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM E LAWSONMaster Sergeant · Panel 26E, Line 39
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.