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WILLIAM GREGORY LANDON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 28, 1946 – May 26, 1967
Service recordWilliam Gregory Landon, of Deerfield, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 26, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 121
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- September 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Deerfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1967; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 121
- BENJAMIN GEORGE MOLLICAPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- RAMON J MORALESPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- SHELTON MORGANPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- JIMMY KEITH MORRISONPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
From Deerfield
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- JOSEPH WILLIAM DEROSAPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- ROGER ZIMMERMANStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- ALLEN EDWIN OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1969
- WILLIAM ERIC SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.