Lloyd, Allen Richard
Army Sergeant

Allen Richard Lloyd, age 21, from Saint Charles, Minnesota, Winona county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, February 18, 1971
Death details: On February 18, 1971, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-15255) with four crew members took off as one of four helicopters on an emergency extraction mission for soldiers from a Special Forces camp located on the west side of A Shau Valley in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. Enemy troops fired on the Iroquois as it attempted to rescue the ground troops using a stable extraction rig, forcing the pilot to leave the area with three men still attached to the rigs. One of the troops on the extraction rigs fell off into the jungle and was eventually rescued. A short time after he fell, the helicopter was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire, which caused it to crash and burn with the four crew members and two rescued ground troops still inside. Sergeant Allen Richard Lloyd entered the U.S. Army from Minnesota and was a member of a member of Command and Control North, 5th Special Forces Group. He was one of the ground troops being rescued by this Iroquois when it was hit by enemy fire and crashed, and he was lost in the incident. Attempts to locate or identify his remains have been unsuccessful. Today, Sergeant Lloyd is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com