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LONNIE BERNARD EVANS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
February 21, 1946 – November 24, 1967
Service recordLonnie Bernard Evans, of Pennington Gap, Virginia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 24, 1967, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 76
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
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- February 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Pennington Gap, Virginia (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 24, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1967; five of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 76
- CLARENCE DARDAR JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1967
- JOHN GAYLEALON DAVISPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- THEODORE ALOYIS DOUGHERTYSergeant · November 24, 1967
- DALE EDWARD EGBERTSeaman · November 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DALE EDWARD EGBERTSeaman · Panel 30E, Line 76
- JOSEPH LOUIS JOHN SIMONPetty Officer First Class · Panel 30E, Line 81
- GEORGE ROJAS YCOCOSeaman · Panel 30E, Line 83
From Pennington Gap
- SAMUEL JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · October 26, 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.