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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Brian Lewis Long.

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BRIAN LEWIS LONG

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

November 7, 1946 – November 17, 1969

Service record

Brian Lewis Long, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 17, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 89

Position of Panel 16W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
November 7, 1946
Home of record
New Martinsville, West Virginia (Wetzel County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 89

From New Martinsville

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.