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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