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LAWRENCE LEE ALDRICH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 16, 1947 – May 6, 1968
Service recordLawrence Lee Aldrich, of Ft Worth, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 37
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Ft Worth, Texas (Tarrant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 55E, Line 37
- JERRY ALAN WYMANSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- RONALD JOHN ZIEMANNLance Corporal · May 5, 1968
- EDWARD DONALD ABBOTTPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- TERRY HOWARD ALDERSONSpecialist Four · May 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY BRISCOESergeant · Panel 56E, Line 2
- KARL LEE BULLARDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 56E, Line 2
- JOSEPH ALLAN CLINGERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 3
- RODNEY ALLEN CRANDALLSpecialist Four · Panel 56E, Line 4
- FREDDIE ISIASH CROCKETTPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 4
- THOMAS AMISS FOXCorporal · Panel 56E, Line 6
- VICTOR JAMES HUMPHREYPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 9
- LARRY LEE KELLYPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 10
- LAWRENCE MICHAEL MCGINTYPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 13
- ROBERT HAL MUNDYSpecialist Four · Panel 56E, Line 13
- LONNY LAWRENCE STEWARTSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 16
From Ft Worth
- GEORGE MARKOSCaptain · February 7, 1965
- CHARLES M DANSBYCaptain · April 24, 1965
- JACK WILTON WEATHERBYCaptain · July 29, 1965
- PAUL WAYNE MANSIRPrivate First Class · September 11, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD THOMASPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- DONALD JAY TANNERLance Corporal · December 4, 1965
- DONALD REY HAWLEYCaptain · December 17, 1965
- OTHA THEANDER THOMPSONCorporal · August 24, 1965
- HARVEY WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- LEWIS DOUGLAS BELLMajor · March 5, 1966
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.