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VAL GENE ALLARD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 10, 1948 – February 4, 1968
Service recordVal Gene Allard, of Worcester, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Worcester, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 17
- HENRY ADLERMaster Sergeant · February 4, 1968
- MARK JOSEPH ALLSTOTTPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
- GERALD ROBERT ANDERSONSpecialist Four · February 4, 1968
- JOHNNY LAWRENCE BACA JRPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW LEE DAWSONSergeant · Panel 37E, Line 20
- JAMES DZIENCILOWSKISpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 21
- RICHARD EDWARD HARNER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 22
- ERNEST LINWOOD JACOBS JRCorporal · Panel 37E, Line 23
- ROY LEE WINERPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 29
From Worcester
- THOM THURSTON OSBORNPrivate First Class · January 28, 1966
- DAVID LAWRENCE DRAKE JRHospitalman · March 20, 1966
- ROBERT J DIREDAPrivate First Class · March 30, 1966
- PAUL RICHARD CAPUANOPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- DANIEL VICTOR MANZAROCorporal · April 1, 1966
- RALPH VICTOR RENAULD JRPrivate First Class · July 15, 1966
- WALTER STEPHAN MOONEYLance Corporal · September 5, 1966
- RICHARD CHARLES JOHNSONPrivate First Class · September 26, 1966
- RUSSELL PETER BOTTMaster Sergeant · December 2, 1966
- ALLAN PHILIP COLLAMORE JRLieutenant Commander · February 4, 1967
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.