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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Adrian Louis Lynn JR.

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ADRIAN LOUIS LYNN JR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 25, 1942 – November 23, 1967

Service record

Adrian Louis Lynn JR, of Eagle Pass, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 71

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
January 25, 1942
Home of record
Eagle Pass, Texas (Maverick County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 23, 1967
Age
25
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 71

Same unit, same day

From Eagle Pass

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.