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LOREN ELWOOD LONG
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 14, 1947 – August 23, 1968
Service recordLoren Elwood Long, of Chesterton, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 47
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- TOC PCV
- Born
- August 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Chesterton, Indiana (Porter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 47
- GEORGE ARTHUR KYRICOSLance Corporal · August 23, 1968
- RAYMOND LOUIS LAGROU JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- WILLIE JAMES LAMARSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- JOEL MITCHELL LAROCHEPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
From Chesterton
- FREDDY RAY GOREPrivate First Class · July 13, 1967
- WILLIAM LEEAirman · July 29, 1967
- WILSON FITZGERALD HALLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- TERRANCE DEAN J FRANCISSpecialist Four · January 10, 1969
- DONALD JOSEPH TRAMPSKIStaff Sergeant · September 16, 1969
- LARRY ALLAN RIPPESpecialist Four · May 27, 1970
- MARK RANDALL TAYLORSpecialist Four · June 2, 1971
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.