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LAVERN OREN OENS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 8, 1948 – January 5, 1969
Service recordLavern Oren Oens, of Placerville, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 40
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Placerville, California (El Dorado County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 40
- CARL ROBERT PETERSENSergeant · January 5, 1969
- HUBERT SINEGAL JRPrivate First Class · January 5, 1969
- RAYMOND LEE SIPPrivate First Class · January 5, 1969
- GREGORY HALE STANCILPrivate · January 5, 1969
From Placerville
- GARY PAUL WORRELLPrivate First Class · January 20, 1967
- DENNIS DALE KRAMERPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- GLEN OTIS ERVINSpecialist Four · February 3, 1968
- THOMAS JOEL DAVISSpecialist Five · April 23, 1968
- MORTEN ARVID LIND JRLance Corporal · May 12, 1969
- GERALD WAYNE POSTENPrivate First Class · May 29, 1969
- DONALD RAY SMITHSergeant · June 9, 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.