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LAWRENCE GEORGE EANS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 13, 1948 – December 11, 1968
Service recordLawrence George Eans, of Dunbar, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 1
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
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- February 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Dunbar, Pennsylvania (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 1
- JUAN CORTES-CASTILLOSergeant · December 11, 1968
- ALFRED JOSEPH CRITELLIPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- ROBERT WALTER CROMWELLLance Corporal · December 11, 1968
- DENNIS EUGENE EDGESergeant · December 11, 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.