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LAWRENCE NORMAN WELK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 1, 1946 – May 23, 1967
Service recordLawrence Norman Welk, of Paynesville, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1967, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 93
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Paynesville, Minnesota (Stearns County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 93
- JOHN THOMAS TRIVETTEPrivate First Class · May 23, 1967
- MARK ANTHONY ANDERSONPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- JOHN CALVIN BETTISLance Corporal · May 24, 1967
- CLAYTON HENRY BYERS JRLance Corporal · May 24, 1967
From Paynesville
- KENNETH LEE OLSONSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
- DARWIN CLIFFORD STURTZCorporal · May 31, 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.