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LAWRENCE RYLAND KOMAN
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
July 8, 1944 – March 30, 1968
Service recordLawrence Ryland Koman, of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 13
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- July 8, 1944
- Home of record
- Aliquippa, Pennsylvania (Beaver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 13
- ROBERT FRANCIS KLINE JRCorporal · March 30, 1968
- JOHN FRANCIS LINKSergeant · March 30, 1968
- LARRY GEORGE MANUELPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
- JOHN GRADY MARSHALLSpecialist Four · March 30, 1968
From Aliquippa
- DOYLE WILMER LYNNCommander · May 27, 1965
- JOHN WILLIE WHITEPrivate First Class · June 9, 1965
- RAYMOND SANTILLISpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- RONALD EDWARD MCCLELLANDSergeant · October 28, 1966
- JULIUS EDGAR JENKINSSpecialist Four · May 22, 1967
- JOSEPH ANDREW TOMKOCaptain · June 1, 1967
- NICK PANELLA JRPrivate First Class · July 3, 1967
- DAVID LAWRENCE COWARTLance Corporal · September 25, 1967
- ADOLPHUS ELLISPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- ALFRED BENNETT CAFRELLISpecialist Four · April 21, 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.