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LYLE EDWARD SLANE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 4, 1942 – July 1, 1968
Service recordLyle Edward Slane, of Brimfield, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 1, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 33
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 4, 1942
- Home of record
- Brimfield, Illinois (Peoria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 1, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date July 1, 1968. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 54W, Line 33
- SAMUEL RUSSELLPrivate First Class · July 1, 1968
- DON SCOTT STANLEYPrivate · July 1, 1968
- TONY TROMBETTASpecialist Four · July 1, 1968
- THOMAS MELVIN WASHINGTONSpecialist Four · July 1, 1968
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.