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LUTHER BURNS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 3, 1949 – June 5, 1968
Service recordLuther Burns, of Mt Pleasant, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 5, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 15
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 3, 1949
- Home of record
- Mt Pleasant, South Carolina (Charleston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 5, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 15
- JAMES WESLEY BARBOURPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- BRUCE WAYNE BURKESPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- VICTOR JOEL CANALESPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- WOODROW FRANKLIN CARBAUGHSergeant · June 5, 1968
From Mt Pleasant
- FRANCIS D HORLBACKSpecialist Four · July 14, 1967
- EARL DINGLESpecialist Four · October 6, 1967
- ARTHUR TURNER JRSergeant · November 20, 1967
- IRVIN BROWNSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- GEORGE THOMAS TAYLOR JRCaptain · May 21, 1971
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.