DEATH
LANCE CORPORAL
LINDEN WAYNE BRITTINHAM
MILTON, DELAWARE
March 17, 1968 Wilmington
Morning News: Milton, Delaware
Sunday afternoon Lance
Corporal Linden Wayne Brittingham, KIA in Vietnam on March 1
was buried in Henlopen
Memorial Cemetery along the Broadkill River.
The Marine, son of Mr. &
Mrs Linden R. Brittingham would have been 20 years old on
March 6 but was killed by hostile gunfire in Thua Thien
Province.
Brittingham graduated
Milton High School in 1966, enlisted in the Marine Corp that
October, had training at
Paris Island and been in \Vietnam seven months, due home in July.
In high school he was co
captain of the football and basket ball teams and ran on the track
team for two years. He was the class president his senior year.
In addition to his parents
he is survived by three brothers Kenny, at Panhandle A & M
College
in Oklahoma, Keith and
Donnie at home., a sister, Lisa, at home. His grandparents, H.O.
Brittingham and wife,
Robert Burton and wife also survive him.
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