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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Tiney W Winters.

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TINEY W WINTERS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 26, 1933 – February 23, 1968

Service record

Tiney W Winters, of Lytle, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41E · Line 5

Position of Panel 41E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 26, 1933
Home of record
Lytle, Texas (Atascosa County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1968
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41E, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Lytle

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.