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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alan Lane.

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ALAN LANE

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 14, 1946 – May 13, 1967

Service record

Alan Lane, of Warren, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 108

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
April 14, 1946
Home of record
Warren, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 108

Same unit, same day

From Warren

All 41 names from Warren →

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.