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LAWRENCE EDWARD HITCHENS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 15, 1950 – May 17, 1969
Service recordLawrence Edward Hitchens, of Magnolia, Delaware, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 17, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 31
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 15, 1950
- Home of record
- Magnolia, Delaware (Kent County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 31
- HARVEY NORMAN HEDSTROMFirst Sergeant · May 17, 1969
- RICHARD JERRY HORNBACKStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1969
- JAMES ALBERT HULL JRSergeant · May 17, 1969
- JOHN ALVIE NICHOLASSergeant · May 17, 1969
From Magnolia
- BRUCE EDWARD CLOUGHPrivate First Class · August 2, 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.