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JOHN STEWART ORLEMANN
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 22, 1945 – August 19, 1969
Service recordJohn Stewart Orlemann, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 72
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 22, 1945
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 72
- HARVEY RICHARD MCCUISTONPrivate First Class · August 19, 1969
- ROBERT MELVIN NELSONCaptain · August 19, 1969
- GEORGE WILLIAM PEARSON JRSpecialist Four · August 19, 1969
- JOHN DAVID PLUMMERWarrant Officer 1 · August 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOSE LLAMASCaptain · Panel 19W, Line 65
- MARTIN EUGENE KIRIKSecond Lieutenant · Panel 19W, Line 68
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.