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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph M Loughran JR.

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JOSEPH M LOUGHRAN JR

Major · U.S. Marine Corps

August 13, 1933 – May 2, 1968

Service record

Joseph M Loughran JR, of Greenwich, Connecticut, served as a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54E · Line 11

Position of Panel 54E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
August 13, 1933
Home of record
Greenwich, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 2, 1968
Age
34
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; 73 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 54E, Line 11

From Greenwich

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.