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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Charles Grange.

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ARTHUR CHARLES GRANGE

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

February 29, 1944 – January 25, 1968

Service record

Arthur Charles Grange, of Roxana, Illinois, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 32

Position of Panel 35E 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
Unit (as recorded)
ENGINEERING CMD
Born
February 29, 1944
Home of record
Roxana, Illinois (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 25, 1968
Age
23
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 32

Same unit, same day

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.