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LAWRENCE RASPBERRY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 6, 1946 – June 30, 1969
Service recordLawrence Raspberry, of Fairfield, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 39
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Postal Clerk (71F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Fairfield, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1969. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 122 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 39
- GLEN CHARLES LUDBANSeaman · June 30, 1969
- JOHN DENNIS MORRISSEYCorporal · June 30, 1969
- STEWART WILLIAM OBERLESergeant · June 30, 1969
- GLEN ERVIN POTEETSpecialist Four · June 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD HARRY GERNERTPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 37
- REX DOUGLAS HARLOWCorporal · Panel 21W, Line 38
- LARRY COSIMO VALLELONGASpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 40
From Fairfield
- J C CLARK JRLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- KENNY WAYNE BULLARDPrivate First Class · May 19, 1966
- ROSS ALLEN GASTONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- RODERICK KENNETH TOLBERTSergeant · June 3, 1970
- RONNIE VAGO ROGERSSpecialist Four · January 5, 1971
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.