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Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr.
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army

Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. was born on 13 April 1929 in El Paso, TX. He was the son of Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr.

(U.S. Army, Ret.) and Mary Frances Robinson Allen. A fourth generation soldier, Terry had achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.

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Lieutenant Colonel Allen was killed in an ambush in South Vietnam on 17 October 1967, while leading his battalion against the Viet Cong in Binh Long Province, northwest of Saigon, in the Battle of Ong Thanh. Terry died from multiple fragmentation wounds.

For his heroic actions on the day that he was killed, Allen was posthumously awarded the U.S. Army's second highest award for valor, the Distinguished Service Cross.

Distinguished Service Cross

Citation:For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Headquarters and Headquart