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ALFRED FRANK LANCE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 29, 1944 – March 25, 1968
Service recordAlfred Frank Lance, of Glen Gardner, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Communitions Chief (31G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Glen Gardner, New Jersey (Hunterdon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 20
- BALFOUR OLIVER LYTTON JRStaff Sergeant · March 25, 1968
- FRANK JAMES MALSEED JRPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL MIHALOVICHCorporal · March 25, 1968
- FRANKLIN EDWARD MOORESergeant First Class · March 25, 1968
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.