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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jonathan Lee Lamm.

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JONATHAN LEE LAMM

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 28, 1948 – February 11, 1970

Service record

Jonathan Lee Lamm, of Mayo, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1970, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 127

Position of Panel 14W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
April 28, 1948
Home of record
Mayo, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 11, 1970
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1970; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 127

Same unit, same day

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.