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FRANKLIN MONROE LANIER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 20, 1949 – March 12, 1969
Service recordFranklin Monroe Lanier, of Winnabow, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 21
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Winnabow, North Carolina (Brunswick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 29W, Line 21
- PATRICK M MCINERNEYPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- FELTON LEE MIMSPetty Officer Third Class · March 12, 1969
- FRED ALLEN MOODYSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- GARY LESLIE MOORESpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK M MCINERNEYPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 21
- PAUL EDWARD IRVINPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 24
- TYRONE GARY THOMANSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 25
- THOMAS ALLEN ZIMMERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 27
From Winnabow
- CLARENCE VERNON MOBLEYCorporal · June 18, 1968
- MCKENZIE W GENWRIGHTCaptain · September 3, 1969
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.