THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It saddens me you have so few remembrances here. As long as you are remembered you will never truly die.

Sergeant First Class William Eugene Allen, Served with the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 54th Transportation Battalion, 8th Transportation Group, United States Army Support Command (Qui Nhon), 1st Logistical Command, United States Army Vietnam.

SFC William E. Allen was a Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor serving with Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment (HHD), 54th Transportation Battalion. On December 26, 1969, while on his third tour of duty in Vietnam, SFC Allen was operating an ammunition truck in Binh Dinh Province, RVN, when it struck a landmine and overturned. Allen was critically wounded in the blast and hospitalized. Injuries to his lower extremities necessitated the amputation of one of his legs. A blood clot resulted which caused his death on December 30, 1969. Allen reportedly had been wounded twice before during his service in the Korean War. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org; obituary (publication & date unknown) courtesy of Tiffany Robbins-Gigee, Director, Spalding Memorial Library, Athens, PA]

DEAR SERGEANT 1ST CLASS ALLEN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A MECHANIC MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR. I HOPE YOUR PHOTO GOES ON THIS SITE.
REST IN PEACE.

Thank you Sergeant First Class Allen for your devotion, leadership and courage.