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JOSEPH LEROY LONG
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 5, 1947 – January 15, 1968
Service recordJoseph Leroy Long, of Kingston, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 54
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- December 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Kingston, New York (Ulster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 54
- CHARLES WILLIAM IRBYSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- TIMOTHY ROBERT KESSLERSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- ERNEST TYRONE MARTINSergeant First Class · January 15, 1968
- ROBERT MATHIASLance Corporal · January 15, 1968
From Kingston
- CHARLES WILLIAM JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- CHESTER JOSEPH JOYCorporal · May 16, 1967
- ROBERT WILLIAM TUBBYPrivate First Class · August 6, 1967
- MICHAEL PAUL SANTOROSKIPrivate First Class · September 26, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES PEDAFirst Lieutenant · April 7, 1968
- PETER MICHAEL DONOVANLance Corporal · August 31, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SENORPrivate First Class · February 2, 1969
- STEPHEN ANDREW SHERLOCKPrivate First Class · April 2, 1969
- WALTER JOSEPH DART JRStaff Sergeant · June 7, 1969
- JAMES RUNDLE JRCorporal · June 7, 1969
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.