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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glen Charles Ludban.

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GLEN CHARLES LUDBAN

Seaman · U.S. Navy

April 23, 1947 – June 30, 1969

Service record

Glen Charles Ludban, of Garrett, Indiana, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 30, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 21W · Line 39

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO NMCB 62
Born
April 23, 1947
Home of record
Garrett, Indiana (De Kalb County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 30, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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27 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Garrett

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.