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LAWRENCE NORBART STANGEL
Constructionman · U.S. Navy
March 9, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordLawrence Norbart Stangel, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, served as a Constructionman in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 41
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. Navy
- Rank
- Constructionman (CN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Born
- March 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Green Bay, Wisconsin (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 41
- JOSE GALENO VIRUETPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES MATHEW VRBA JRMajor · January 31, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD WALSHCorporal · January 31, 1968
- JOHN DOUGLAS WARD JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
From Green Bay
- JAMES DAVID LAHAYECommander · May 8, 1965
- RICHARD CHARLES MCKEE JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- DANIEL RAYMOND SMEESTERCorporal · July 1, 1967
- RICHARD THOMAS JACKSONSergeant · January 6, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD LOYHospitalman · January 11, 1968
- JOSEPH LLOYD BEGOTKASergeant · January 27, 1968
- GEARWIN PHILLIP TOUSEYPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JOSEPH DEAN SEIBERTSergeant · March 6, 1968
- FRANK VINCENT HERRERASergeant · April 4, 1968
- JOHN R DAGOSTINO JRSergeant · April 30, 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.