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LEWIS MILTON KING JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 6, 1943 – August 21, 1968
Service recordLewis Milton King JR, of Morgantown, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Sergeant Missile Crewman (15B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 6, 1943
- Home of record
- Morgantown, West Virginia (Monongalia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 19
- JOHN IMBACH IIISpecialist Four · August 21, 1968
- GEORGE KUAMOO KAPALULance Corporal · August 21, 1968
- MAINOR DAVID LANG JRSergeant First Class · August 21, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE LEDBETTERPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
From Morgantown
- JAMES HOWARD SAWYERPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- WILBERT HERSHELL JOHNSONSergeant · November 17, 1965
- DAVID ALLAN KOVACLance Corporal · December 27, 1965
- ROGER ALLEN BISESpecialist Four · February 13, 1966
- JAMES CARL THOMASLance Corporal · December 20, 1966
- MAJOR ROY DALTON JRSpecialist Four · January 2, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD MESSENGERSergeant · July 15, 1967
- PAUL STEPHEN GOGGINLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT ROSS JRFirst Lieutenant · January 30, 1968
- ROBERT SULLIVAN HOSKINSPrivate First Class · May 1, 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.