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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 Francis Lee Langley.

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FRANCIS LEE LANGLEY

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

November 6, 1946 – January 11, 1967

Service record

Francis Lee Langley, of Waverly, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 11, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 14E · Line 10

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Shore Party Specialist (1381)
Born
November 6, 1946
Home of record
Waverly, Alabama (Chambers County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 11, 1967
Age
20
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

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24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 14E, Line 10

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.