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LORN DAVID COMPTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 22, 1948 – April 4, 1968
Service recordLorn David Compton, of Squire, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 3
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mechanical Maintenance Helper (63A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Squire, West Virginia (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 3
- HEINRICH GERSTHEIMERSergeant · April 4, 1968
- TAHER FATHI GHAISSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- ROBERT ORAL GIRDNERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD GRACEPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERALD ALLEN BORMANSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 58
- BRADLEY ELLIS CLARKSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 1
From Squire
- ALBERT HAROLD ALTIZERCorporal · October 8, 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.