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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 Laurence Alan Insel.

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LAURENCE ALAN INSEL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 23, 1946 – May 1, 1967

Service record

Laurence Alan Insel, of Beverly Hills, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 1, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 6

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Personnel Specialist (71H)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
May 23, 1946
Home of record
Beverly Hills, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 1, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

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

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 6

From Beverly Hills

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.