United States Marine Corps Group Burial Vietnam: 6 June 1968 |
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Name: KURT ELTON LA PLANT
Date of Birth: 12/11/1948 Date of Casualty: 6/6/1968 Home of Record: LENEXA, KANSAS Branch of Service: MARINE CORPS Rank: LCPL Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: QUANG TRI Status: MIA
Full Name: RALPH LEWIS HARPER Date of Birth: 1/14/1948 Date of Casualty: 6/6/1968 Home of Record: INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Branch of Service: MARINE CORPS Rank: LCPL Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: QUANG TRI Status: MIA Full Name: JOSE RAMON SANCHEZ Date of Birth: 3/15/1949 Date of Casualty: 6/6/1968 Home of Record: NEW YORK, NEW YORK Branch of Service: MARINE CORPS Rank: PFC Casualty Country: SOUTH VIETNAM Casualty Province: QUANG TRI Status: MIA U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 934-08
Marines Missing From Vietnam War Are Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Lance Corporal Kurt E. La Plant, of Lenexa, Kansas, and Lance Corporal Luis F. Palacios, of Los Angeles, California. Remains that could not be individually identified are included in a group. Among the group remains are Lance Corporal Ralph L. Harper, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Private First Class Jose R. Sanchez, of Brooklyn, New York. All men were U.S. Marine Corps. Palacios will be buried Friday in Bellflower, California, and the other Marines will be buried as a group in the spring in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On June 6, 1968, these men were aboard a CH-46A
Sea Knight helicopter that was attempting an emergency extraction of elements
of the 1st Battalion, 4th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division then engaged against
hostile forces in the mountains southwest of Khe Sanh, Quang Tri Province,
South Vietnam. The helicopter was struck by enemy ground fire and crashed,
killing 12 of the 23 crewmen and passengers on board. All but four of the
men who died were subsequently recovered and identified.
LA PLANT, KURT ELTON
SANCHEZ, JOSE RAMON
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