VIETNAM - VINCENT, IVAN LORENZA JR

Vincent, Ivan Lorenza Jr

VIETNAM - VINCENT, IVAN LORENZA JR
VINCENT, IVAN LORENZA JR

Rank: Private First Class

Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist

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: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Enlisted by: Selected Service

Date of birth: 6-Oct-1946

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan

Marital status: Married to Karen A. Vincent, one son

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Entered service: 6-Jun-1967

Start of tour: 19-Jan-1968

Incident date: 24-Aug-1968

Date of casualty: 24-Aug-1968

Age at death: 21

Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Ivan Lorenza Vincent Jr died from wounds received while in a military vehicle on combat operation when hostile rocket detonated.

Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
1LT Leslie Edmund Hines III
SP4 Lewis Sylvester Nance
PFC Ivan Lorenza Vincent Jr

Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XU 764 100*

Place of interment: Washington Memory Gardens, Homewood, Illinois, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 46W 010 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)