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WILFRED ALCIDE DOIRON
Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 8, 1923 – June 22, 1966
Service recordWilfred Alcide Doiron, of Lawton, Oklahoma, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 22, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 74
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 8, 1923
- Home of record
- Lawton, Oklahoma (Comanche County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 22, 1966
- Age
- 43
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 74
- ROBERT C BOICOURTSpecialist Four · June 22, 1966
- EDMUND DAVID BRENT JRStaff Sergeant · June 22, 1966
- JAMES RICHARD DUFAULTPrivate First Class · June 22, 1966
- JAMES E FULLERPrivate · June 22, 1966
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS NORMAN HARRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 75
From Lawton
- ARNOLD DEAN KNIFFINMajor · June 1, 1964
- CLYDE DAVID TAYLORFirst Lieutenant · January 5, 1966
- ALBERT C ROBERTSStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM EMMETTSergeant First Class · March 5, 1966
- RUSSELL EUGENE PESEWONITPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- HULSA D WOLFEStaff Sergeant · May 13, 1967
- LAWRENCE RAY LASITERStaff Sergeant · June 19, 1967
- DOUGLAS WAYNE HILLPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JOHN DAVID MERRIMANSecond Lieutenant · August 31, 1967
- CLIVE LEROY EVANSCorporal · September 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.