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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Albert Lindell.

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LARRY ALBERT LINDELL

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

October 23, 1943 – May 6, 1967

Service record

Larry Albert Lindell, of Arcadia, Nebraska, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 6, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 50

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Aviation Structural Mech (Structures) (AMS)
Unit (as recorded)
7 FLT
Born
October 23, 1943
Home of record
Arcadia, Nebraska (Valley County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 6, 1967
Age
23
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 50

From Arcadia

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.