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LAWRENCE GENE BANGS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 27, 1949 – December 27, 1970
Service recordLawrence Gene Bangs, of Eatonville, Washington, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1970, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- June 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Eatonville, Washington (Pierce County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1970; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In December 1970, 271 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 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 10
- ARTHUR HOUSTON PRICEStaff Sergeant · December 26, 1970
- PAUL RUBIO VILLALOBOSSpecialist Four · December 26, 1970
- RAYMOND ROBERT COOREMANWarrant Officer 1 · December 27, 1970
- ELROY FREDERICK WELLSStaff Sergeant · December 27, 1970
Same unit, same day
- DAVID LEE TEMPLETONSpecialist Four · Panel 5W, Line 12
From Eatonville
- DAVID DUWAYNE KNOWLESSeaman · September 27, 1967
- RONALD GAY CURTISSergeant · February 22, 1971
- PAUL DENIS KREGERPrivate First Class · February 17, 1972
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.