The Wall › Panel 51E › Pennsylvania › Lane Kornegay Hargrove
LANE KORNEGAY HARGROVE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 31, 1948 – April 21, 1968
Service recordLane Kornegay Hargrove, of Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 20
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 20
- JACK DEE GOODESpecialist Four · April 21, 1968
- RONALD DEVONE GRIFFINPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- EUGENE HARRISPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- HIAWATHA HICKSSpecialist Four · April 21, 1968
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.