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LAWRENCE BRADFORD FORRESTER
Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force
May 3, 1951 – September 20, 1971
Service recordLawrence Bradford Forrester, of Huntington Beach, California, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 20, 1971, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 21
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Airman First Class (A1C)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- May 3, 1951
- Home of record
- Huntington Beach, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 20, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1971; he was the only one lost in Ninh Thuan Province that day. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 21
- IRA CHARLES BRANKSpecialist Five · September 20, 1971
- LAWRENCE LEROY COVERLieutenant Commander · September 20, 1971
- HAROLD EDWARD COWENPetty Officer First Class · September 20, 1971
- DUANE GARTH FORGETTESpecialist Four · September 20, 1971
From Huntington Beach
- TERRY LEE QUINNPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- MICHAEL D WALLACEPrivate First Class · August 13, 1966
- RAY EUGENE BRADLEYWarrant Officer 1 · February 16, 1967
- MIKE ARMENDAREZPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- GEORGE TALLMANSergeant · April 9, 1967
- ROGER VERNON INSCORECorporal · May 26, 1967
- WILLIAM VAZQUEZSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- TERRY LEE TEBBETTSPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANCIS CATT JRSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- LELAND PATRICK FINLEYSpecialist Four · May 10, 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.