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LAWRENCE BARBE COLEMAN JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 19, 1947 – August 13, 1971
Service recordLawrence Barbe Coleman JR, of Gibsonville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1971, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 131 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 131
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- June 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Gibsonville, North Carolina (Alamance County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1971
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1971; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 131
- MARK HASKIN EATONStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1971
- JOHN FREDERICK PEPINSpecialist Four · August 13, 1971
- FLOYD WILLIAM KOTEWA JRSergeant · August 14, 1971
- HAYWOOD RODGERSSergeant · August 14, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JOHN FREDERICK PEPINSpecialist Four · Panel 3W, Line 131
From Gibsonville
- JOHN LEWIS MCDANIELMajor · April 26, 1968
- GARY DAVIS PRINCECorporal · November 29, 1968
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.