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LORENZO TUGGLE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 7, 1949 – July 5, 1969
Service recordLorenzo Tuggle, of Winder, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 5, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 67
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
- Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
- Born
- December 7, 1949
- Home of record
- Winder, Georgia (Barrow County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 5, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 67
- JOAQUIN RAMOS-RAMIREZStaff Sergeant · July 5, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH SESLERPrivate First Class · July 5, 1969
- JOHN AUGUST WELSFORD JRPrivate First Class · July 5, 1969
- SAMUEL LOUIS WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · July 5, 1969
From Winder
- GENE WENDELL LAYPrivate First Class · October 2, 1967
- JERRY JACKSON MCDANIELPrivate First Class · December 28, 1967
- WELDON GEORGE LYNNPrivate First Class · February 17, 1969
- JAMES ROBERT FOWLERCaptain · April 24, 1970
- BILLY JOE HAMMONDPrivate First Class · March 23, 1972
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.