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TROY LEE KNIGHT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 4, 1946 – February 16, 1967
Service recordTroy Lee Knight, of Scottdale, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 46
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Scottdale, Georgia (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 88 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 46
- ROBERT EARL HOLCOMBPrivate First Class · February 16, 1967
- ELMER FRED KEPSELPrivate First Class · February 16, 1967
- RICHARD LEON KOLLMANNSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- KENNETH LEROY KOSTERSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- LAWRENCE ROBERT KUSILEKSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GARY ALLEN CURTISSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 42
- JERRY BOGGIE GOLDINGSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 44
- JEFFREY G KAZIKOWSKIPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 45
- JAMES HOWARD MONROEPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 48
- NORMAN JAMES MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 48
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR MCCRARYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 15E, Line 49
- KENNETH WAYNE OGLESSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 49
- TOMMY J TERRYSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 52
From Scottdale
- DAVID STONESpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
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.