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RANDALL WAYNE LOVE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 26, 1949 – April 27, 1970
Service recordRandall Wayne Love, of Cecilia, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 237 MED DET USARV
- Born
- May 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Cecilia, Kentucky (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “237 MED DET USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 59
- ROBERT THOMAS KOEHLERSpecialist Four · April 27, 1970
- LARRY JOSEPH LONCONSpecialist Four · April 27, 1970
- GERALD EUGENE MCKAYLieutenant Colonel · April 27, 1970
- STANLEY JOSEPH MILLER JRWarrant Officer 1 · April 27, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ZETTIE J C DULINSpecialist Four · Panel 11W, Line 57
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.