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WILLIAM BOYLE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 26, 1938 – February 28, 1970
Service recordWilliam Boyle, of Watrous, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1970, in Laos, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Senior Sergeant (91Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 26, 1938
- Home of record
- Watrous, Pennsylvania (Tioga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1970
- Age
- 31
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1970. In February 1970, 569 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.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 13W, Line 67
- GLENN EDWARD BUNDYPrivate First Class · February 28, 1970
- DONNIE RAY CHASTAINSergeant · February 28, 1970
- LARRY EUGENE DAILEYSpecialist Four · February 28, 1970
- DOUGLAS MORRIS WOODWARDSergeant First Class · February 28, 1970
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.