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LOUIS ROBERT LORDI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 28, 1947 – May 17, 1968
Service recordLouis Robert Lordi, of North Wales, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 8
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 28, 1947
- Home of record
- North Wales, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1968; six of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 8
- RONNIE DEAN LUMANSpecialist Four · May 17, 1968
- ROLAND TRENT MARSHALLPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
- SAMUEL CALVIN MARTINSpecialist Five · May 17, 1968
- FRANKLIN H METZKERPrivate · May 17, 1968
From North Wales
- JOSEPH ANTHONY MOLETTIERELance Corporal · February 5, 1968
- DAVID RALPH WEIGNERCaptain · July 27, 1970
- HENRY HOOKER STRONG JRCaptain · May 25, 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.