SP5 Hans W. Jung
1946 - 1977
USAR
VN
Hans Werner Jung was born April 19, 1946, in Germany to Emma Jung, who married a U.S. soldier, Thomas Young, and emigrated in 1950.
Jung graduated from Ela-Vernon-Lake Zurich High School in 1965, and entered the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War on March 28, 1966. He was honorably discharged as a Specialist 5 on March 27, 1968.
In April, 1968, Jung married Mary J. Lankenau in Union, New Jersey; they had two children.
Professionally, he was a pipefitter.
SP5 Hans Jung died in Naperville, following a traffic accident, on January 15, 1977, and is buried in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.