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LAWRENCE HERBERT GOLBERG
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
December 31, 1932 – August 8, 1966
Service recordLawrence Herbert Golberg, of Cloquet, Minnesota, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on August 8, 1966, in North Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 112
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- December 31, 1932
- Home of record
- Cloquet, Minnesota (Carlton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 8, 1966
- Age
- 33
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 112
- DONALD LEE CORBINPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- JAMES HERBERT FIFE JRPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- MELVIN FRANKLIN FLOYDPlatoon Sergeant · August 8, 1966
- ERNEST GIBSONSpecialist Four · August 8, 1966
From Cloquet
- ALLEN ISAAC JOHNSONPrivate · July 7, 1965
- GUST J SHARLOWSergeant · January 12, 1967
- FRANCIS LESLIE SETTERQUISTCaptain · August 23, 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.