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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harry Lann Hendricks.

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HARRY LANN HENDRICKS

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 6, 1944 – June 12, 1967

Service record

Harry Lann Hendricks, of Akron, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 95

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
October 6, 1944
Home of record
Akron, Ohio (Summit County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 12, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 95

From Akron

All 93 names from Akron →

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.