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JOHN ALAN LANGSTON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 17, 1947 – December 3, 1968
Service recordJohn Alan Langston, of Laverne, Oklahoma, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 33
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)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Laverne, Oklahoma (Harper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 33
- MARION BENNETT HUGHES JRPrivate · December 3, 1968
- WEBSTER BEREAL JOHNSONSpecialist Four · December 3, 1968
- BOBBY DWIGHT LEWISPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
- DANNY JOSEPH MAWDSLEYPrivate First Class · December 3, 1968
From Laverne
- RONALD LEE HILDERBRANDSergeant First Class · May 6, 1967
- JOHNNIE LEROY ISHMAELChief Warrant Officer 2 · February 4, 1970
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.