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JAMES FRANKLIN LANG
Captain · U.S. Air Force
November 22, 1941 – April 28, 1968
Service recordJames Franklin Lang, of Tipton, Missouri, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on April 28, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 39
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- November 22, 1941
- Home of record
- Tipton, Missouri (Moniteau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 39
- DANIEL WILLIAM KEOPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- THOMAS PATRICK KLAUSINGPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE LANKFORDCorporal · April 28, 1968
- MICHAEL RICHARD LUCASSpecialist Four · April 28, 1968
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.