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DAVID HENRY LASSEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 17, 1948 – April 1, 1970
Service recordDavid Henry Lassen, of Clarence, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 70
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- March 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Clarence, New York (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 1, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1970; 27 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 70
- RUSSELL THOMAS LAFAVEPrivate First Class · April 1, 1970
- ROBERT HARRISON LANE JRSergeant · April 1, 1970
- ROBERT MORGAN LIDDELLMaster Sergeant · April 1, 1970
- CLARENCE LOGANStaff Sergeant · April 1, 1970
Same unit, same day
- OTTO JAMES DRAKENCorporal · Panel 12W, Line 67
- PHILIP JON STEMPERSpecialist Four · Panel 12W, Line 75
- VENTER BLYTHE NOEL VANDESpecialist Four · Panel 12W, Line 77
From Clarence
- CARL ARTHUR PAULINOPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- DAVID KARL ERENSTOFTWarrant Officer 1 · March 8, 1970
- BRIAN ROBERT FOLEYStaff Sergeant · February 7, 1971
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.