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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 Douglas Richmond.

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LAWRENCE DOUGLAS RICHMOND

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 16, 1945 – April 17, 1970

Service record

Lawrence Douglas Richmond, of Crab Orchard, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 17, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11W · Line 18

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Supplyman (76A)
Born
March 16, 1945
Home of record
Crab Orchard, West Virginia (Raleigh County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 17, 1970
Age
25
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

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19 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1970; ten of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Crab Orchard

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.