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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lamoine Lowell Sandvig.

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LAMOINE LOWELL SANDVIG

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 24, 1932 – July 19, 1967

Service record

Lamoine Lowell Sandvig, of Del Norte, Colorado, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23E · Line 90

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
569 ENG CO 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
August 24, 1932
Home of record
Del Norte, Colorado (Rio Grande County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 19, 1967
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

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18 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Del Norte

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.