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DURWOOD BERT LOMBARD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 27, 1944 – March 10, 1968
Service recordDurwood Bert Lombard, of Lincoln, Maine, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 9
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Lincoln, Maine (Penobscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 9
- JAMES ALFRED LESSEGPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- RALPH ANTHONY LOGRASSOPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- RICHARD ALBERT MARSHCorporal · March 10, 1968
- BRIAN ALEXANDER MARSHALLPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES MCKINLEY HAIRSTONSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 7
- JOHN ARTHUR HOOKERStaff Sergeant · Panel 44E, Line 8
- RICHARD ALBERT MARSHCorporal · Panel 44E, Line 9
- JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY IIICorporal · Panel 44E, Line 10
- RICHARD CHARLES WESTBERGPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 12
From Lincoln
- DONALD LEROY BROWNCorporal · November 11, 1966
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.