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LORING WILLIAM WATSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 15, 1949 – March 19, 1969
Service recordLoring William Watson, of Brewer, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 19, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 85
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
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- July 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Brewer, Maine (Penobscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1969; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 85
- WILLIAM WARNER UTTSCorporal · March 19, 1969
- JOSEPH ROBERT VANDEHEICorporal · March 19, 1969
- RICHARD ANTHONY VOLKLance Corporal · March 19, 1969
- JACKIE JOE WEBBCorporal · March 19, 1969
From Brewer
- PHILLIP J CAYFORD JRSpecialist Four · March 22, 1968
- JOSEPH EMERSON HEATHSpecialist Four · October 29, 1968
- MICHAEL HENRY DERAGONPrivate First Class · August 14, 1969
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.