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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Leo Luc.

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FRANK LEO LUC

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

January 21, 1914 – May 11, 1967

Service record

Frank Leo Luc, of San Diego, California, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 11, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 53. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 90

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Boilerman (BT)
Born
January 21, 1914
Home of record
San Diego, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 11, 1967
Age
53
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 90

From San Diego

All 181 names from San Diego →

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.