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RONALD BARRY LANNING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 19, 1947 – February 19, 1968
Service recordRonald Barry Lanning, of Bloomington, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 24
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
93 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1968; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 24
- DAVID HARRY LEWISStaff Sergeant · February 19, 1968
- THOMAS EDWARD LILLEYSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- THOMAS JOHN LOBACKCorporal · February 19, 1968
- JOHN B MADISONStaff Sergeant · February 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE EUGENE FEDORPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 20
- JOHN B MADISONStaff Sergeant · Panel 40E, Line 24
- BILLY RAYVON NORRISPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 27
- ROBERT EMMETT TYNERPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 33
From Bloomington
- GARY FRANCIS MCCUELance Corporal · May 8, 1967
- PETER RAY WILLEYPrivate First Class · January 15, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN DAHLSpecialist Four · December 24, 1969
- DANIEL KENNETH WELINPrivate First Class · April 4, 1970
- RONNIE CARL TESCHENDORFSergeant · November 29, 1970
- MICHAEL MATTHEW SIKICHSpecialist Four · December 23, 1970
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.