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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 Lawrence Brendan Ryan.

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LAWRENCE BRENDAN RYAN

Captain · U.S. Army

August 15, 1939 – June 30, 1968

Service record

Lawrence Brendan Ryan, of New York, New York, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54W · Line 25

Position of Panel 54W 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. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 15, 1939
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 30, 1968
Age
28
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1968; four of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 54W, Line 25

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.