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HERLIHY TOWNSEND LONG
Colonel · U.S. Army
March 15, 1924 – January 27, 1968
Service recordHerlihy Townsend Long, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 48
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
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 15, 1924
- Home of record
- Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 27, 1968
- Age
- 43
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 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 35E, Line 48
- MICHEAL ALLEN MIKITISGunnery Sergeant · January 27, 1968
- STEPHEN MICHAEL MUELLERPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- LESTER MILTON NESSCorporal · January 27, 1968
- MICHAEL VIRGIL PETERSONCorporal · January 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH LLOYD BEGOTKASergeant · Panel 35E, Line 43
- WAYNE CHESTER MYERSCorporal · Panel 35E, Line 49
From Macon
- EDDIE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- HAZE HOWARD IIISpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JIMMY ALVIN JOHNSONSergeant · September 23, 1966
- WAYNE THAD STRICKLANDCorporal · September 24, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- RALLS HAWKINSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- SANDY LEE ROSSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
- FRANKLIN DWIGHT RUISPrivate First Class · March 19, 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.