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MELVIN DOYLE LANGSTON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 20, 1948 – June 6, 1968
Service recordMelvin Doyle Langston, of Valentine, Nebraska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 6
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
- October 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Valentine, Nebraska (Cherry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 6
- ROGER LEE INBODENCorporal · June 6, 1968
- ALBERT ISHMAN JRStaff Sergeant · June 6, 1968
- KURT ELTON LAPLANTLance Corporal · June 6, 1968
- DENNIS LEE LOBBEZOOPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
From Valentine
- WILLIAM PIERCE RAUBACHSecond Lieutenant · February 28, 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.