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HERMAN EARL LASSITER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 23, 1946 – March 21, 1969
Service recordHerman Earl Lassiter, of Holland, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 101
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Holland, Virginia (Suffolk (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 101
- JAMES MICHEAL KINGPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- ALBERT OTTO KRAUSSERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1969
- FRANK ANTHONY KRIEGERPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- LYNN ROBBIN KROTZERPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM MALCOLM CHURCHLieutenant Colonel · Panel 29W, Line 95
- BARRY WADE GRAFSergeant · Panel 29W, Line 99
- THOMAS JACKSON GRINDSTAFFSpecialist Five · Panel 29W, Line 99
- ADGER EUGENE MOODYSpecialist Six · Panel 29W, Line 103
- BILLY DAN MURPHYCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 104
- CHRIS ANTHONY SOUZACorporal · Panel 28W, Line 4
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.