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LAWRENCE LAVERN COVEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 18, 1930 – November 14, 1965
Service recordLawrence Lavern Covey, of Benedict, Nebraska, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 14, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 48
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 18, 1930
- Home of record
- Benedict, Nebraska (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 14, 1965
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date November 14, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 48
- HAROLD EUGENE WILKINSSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- DAVE MAYES JRSpecialist Four · November 13, 1965
- SAMUEL EARL COKERPrivate · November 14, 1965
- RALPH A COPELANDSpecialist Four · November 14, 1965
Same unit, same day
- BURREL DALE HUEBNERPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 49
- FLOYD DEAN JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 49
- DONALD RAY PATRICKSpecialist Four · Panel 3E, Line 50
- RICHARD ARTHUR WALRODSpecialist Four · Panel 3E, Line 50
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.