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LOUIS MICHAEL LANE
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 11, 1946 – April 9, 1968
Service recordLouis Michael Lane, of Rochester, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 3
- PHILLIP MEREDITH KIDDPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- BENJAMIN KAON KISSLINGCorporal · April 9, 1968
- KARL WADE LAWSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
- WAYNE ROBERT LEFEBERSpecialist Five · April 9, 1968
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.