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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bricey Elrod Lamb.

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BRICEY ELROD LAMB

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

August 25, 1946 – September 11, 1967

Service record

Bricey Elrod Lamb, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 56

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
August 25, 1946
Home of record
Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 11, 1967
Age
21
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1967; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 56

From Macon

All 56 names from Macon →

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.