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KURT ELTON LAPLANT
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
December 11, 1948 – June 6, 1968
Service recordKurt Elton Laplant, of Lenexa, Kansas, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 6
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Unit (as recorded)
- H&S CO 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Lenexa, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “H&S CO 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 59W, Line 6
- ROGER LEE INBODENCorporal · June 6, 1968
- ALBERT ISHMAN JRStaff Sergeant · June 6, 1968
- MELVIN DOYLE LANGSTONPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- DENNIS LEE LOBBEZOOPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LUIS FERNANDO PALACIOSLance Corporal · Panel 59W, Line 11
- JOSE RAMON SANCHEZPrivate First Class · Panel 59W, Line 13
From Lenexa
- MICHAEL LAVERN WHITEPetty Officer Third Class · September 23, 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.