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WALTER ROBIN LANG
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 6, 1947 – May 26, 1968
Service recordWalter Robin Lang, of Niles, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 66W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66W · Line 9
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Niles, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 66W, Line 9
- LARRY JONESPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- RANDALL WAYNE KELPINECorporal · May 26, 1968
- ROBERT GERALD MARVINSpecialist Four · May 26, 1968
- DAVID HARVEY MILLERSpecialist Five · May 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL WILLIAM BRAUNStaff Sergeant · Panel 66W, Line 2
- GEORGE LEE COBBPrivate First Class · Panel 66W, Line 3
- DANIEL ERIC GOLDSMITHSergeant · Panel 66W, Line 6
- ROBERT GERALD MARVINSpecialist Four · Panel 66W, Line 9
- DAVID WILLIAM SMITHSergeant · Panel 65W, Line 1
From Niles
- LARRY J PETERSCaptain · August 16, 1967
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.