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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Iris Hilton Harrington.

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IRIS HILTON HARRINGTON

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

February 5, 1949 – June 1, 1969

Service record

Iris Hilton Harrington, of Iowa, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 1, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23W · Line 37

Position of Panel 23W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Unit (as recorded)
MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 15 ASLT DIV 15
Born
February 5, 1949
Home of record
Iowa, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
June 1, 1969
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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33 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 23W, Line 37

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.