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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lloyd Irvin Luttrell.

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LLOYD IRVIN LUTTRELL

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

October 12, 1946 – January 24, 1969

Service record

Lloyd Irvin Luttrell, of Lexington, Kentucky, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 24, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 73

Position of Panel 34W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
October 12, 1946
Home of record
Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 24, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 73

From Lexington

All 47 names from Lexington →

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.