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JOE LYNN DELONG
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 18, 1947 – May 18, 1967
Service recordJoe Lynn Delong, of Mcminnville, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on May 18, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 20
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 1 BN 8 INF 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Mcminnville, Tennessee (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 18, 1967
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 28 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 1 BN 8 INF 4 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 20
- WILLIAM COY TURNERSpecialist Four · May 17, 1967
- CHARLES E ARONHALT JRFirst Lieutenant · May 18, 1967
- JACQUE JOSEPH AYDPetty Officer Second Class · May 18, 1967
- FLORENTINO CIPRIAN BARRONCorporal · May 18, 1967
From Mcminnville
- FLOYD CARL CRAVENCorporal · September 4, 1967
- JOHNNY LAVERNE WHITEAKERCorporal · August 21, 1968
- HAROLD LAWTON BASHAMCorporal · November 29, 1968
- DAVID ROBERT RAYPetty Officer Second Class · March 19, 1969
- WILBUR LEON GREENStaff Sergeant · May 8, 1969
- THOMAS DUDLEY YOUNGSergeant · December 15, 1970
- JAMES CHARLES WATSONStaff Sergeant · December 25, 1971
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.