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HERBERT LAMAR LUNSFORD
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
September 2, 1928 – July 25, 1967
Service recordHerbert Lamar Lunsford, of Lauderdale, Mississippi, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on July 25, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 119
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 390 TFS
- Born
- September 2, 1928
- Home of record
- Lauderdale, Mississippi (Lauderdale County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- July 25, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “390 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 23E, Line 119
- JERRY DALE GOOCHSpecialist Four · July 25, 1967
- JEREMY MICHAEL JARVISMajor · July 25, 1967
- JOHN LARRY JEFFERSSpecialist Four · July 25, 1967
- BRUCE EDWARD LARGEPrivate First Class · July 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JEREMY MICHAEL JARVISMajor · Panel 23E, Line 119
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.