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GREGORY LAWREN LITTLEJOHN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 28, 1948 – April 7, 1968
Service recordGregory Lawren Littlejohn, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 43
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Norristown, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 43
- JOHN H LIBBYSergeant · April 7, 1968
- ELMER R LINDSEY JRCorporal · April 7, 1968
- RICKEY JOE MARSONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- ROBERT L SAMUELSONSergeant · April 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EFREN CARMONASpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 39
- GRAHAM LONNIE MILLSSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 44
- WILLIAM J WHITEHEADCaptain · Panel 48E, Line 49
From Norristown
- ROBERT FRANCIS RONCAMajor · February 19, 1965
- WILLIAM RICHARD REESE JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1966
- NICHOLAS JOSEPH FULMERSpecialist Four · November 12, 1966
- MICHAEL ALEXANDER BARONOWSKILance Corporal · November 29, 1966
- NILS ARDEN DRENNENPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
- JOHN ELLWOOD SCHEETZPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- DANIEL WILLIAM BRADYLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- WILLIE LEE JONES JRSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- DAVID BRAUCH LEFEVERCorporal · September 6, 1967
- JIMMIE LUE MCMORRISPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
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.