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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Loren Francis Studer.

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LOREN FRANCIS STUDER

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

July 21, 1946 – May 31, 1968

Service record

Loren Francis Studer, of Clarion, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 31, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 62W · Line 18

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Steelworker (SW)
Born
July 21, 1946
Home of record
Clarion, Iowa (Wright County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 31, 1968
Age
21
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

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79 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Clarion

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.