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LANNY GAYLE WRIGHT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 26, 1946 – March 7, 1967
Service recordLanny Gayle Wright, of Brookfield, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Brookfield, Missouri (Linn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 38
- CHARLES DAVID RIKARDStaff Sergeant · March 7, 1967
- JOHN AULDE SICKEL IIISpecialist Four · March 7, 1967
- RALPH LLOYD STILLWAGONERSpecialist Five · March 7, 1967
- LOUIS FERNDEZ TORRESPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH HAROLD ARNOLDPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 33
- JOHN HERBERT SHALLAHPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 37
From Brookfield
- RICHARD EUGENE HOLZER JRFirst Lieutenant · August 1, 1969
- THOMAS ARNOLD LONGPrivate First Class · July 22, 1970
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.