VIETNAM - LONG, EARL WAYNE

Long, Earl Wayne

VIETNAM - LONG, EARL WAYNE
LONG, EARL WAYNE

Rank: Private First Class

Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

MOS: 11B – Infantryman

Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge

Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Enlisted by: Selected Service

Date of birth: 8-Mar-1947

Hometown: Ruffsdale, Pennsylvania

Marital status: Never Married

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Start of tour: 19-Jun-1967

Incident date: 15-Aug-1967

Date of casualty: 15-Aug-1967

Age at death: 20

Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Earl Wayne Long was a passenger in an Armored Personnel Carrier on a combat operation when the vehicle hit a hostile mine.

Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC William Emanuel Baker
PFC Earl Wayne Long

Location of fatality: Phuoc Long, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Westmoreland County Memorial Park, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 24E 114 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)