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JOHN FORMAN LOBSINGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 18, 1949 – January 23, 1968
Service recordJohn Forman Lobsinger, of St Louis Park, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- April 18, 1949
- Home of record
- St Louis Park, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 16
- EMILIO GAMBOA GARCIACorporal · January 23, 1968
- HERSHEL HIGGINSSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- DAVID JOHN KLIPPELSergeant · January 23, 1968
- LEE ANDRES LUALLINPrivate First Class · January 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MAYNARD BERGESpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 13
- HILAIRE ALBERT ANDRY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 14
- JAMES IRVING BUCHNERSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 14
- RONNIE JOE ESKEWSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 15
- LEE ANDRES LUALLINPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 16
- DONALD GORDON MACINTOSHSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 17
- JOSEPH STANLEY MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 17
From St Louis Park
- EDWARD DAVID LARSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1966
- JOHN THOMAS MCDANIELPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- JOHN ALVIN ILSTRUP JRSpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- GORDON DAVID WALENSKYLance Corporal · April 10, 1968
- JOHN KIM VOGELSANGPrivate First Class · June 6, 1969
- JOSHUA B STEWARTSpecialist Five · March 15, 1973
- JAMES ROBERT WEISLERSergeant · October 2, 1969
- STEVEN DALE PLATHPrivate · March 28, 1971
- KENT DOUGLAS ERICKSONPrivate · March 29, 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.