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WARREN JUNIOR FLANAGAN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 9, 1933 – March 31, 1968
Service recordWarren Junior Flanagan, of Ridgeley, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 21
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 9, 1933
- Home of record
- Ridgeley, West Virginia (Mineral County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 21
- ARNOLD JAY FERRARIStaff Sergeant · March 31, 1968
- JAMES KAISER FLOURNOYPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- JAMES FRANCIS GALATIConstructionman · March 31, 1968
- RICHARD GARCIAPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
From Ridgeley
- THEODORE A ALKIRE JRSergeant · November 21, 1966
- MICHAEL LEE HORNCorporal · May 29, 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.