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LORENZO FOX
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 26, 1946 – August 31, 1970
Service recordLorenzo Fox, of Battleboro, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1970, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Battleboro, North Carolina (Nash County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1970
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1970; he was the only one lost in Ba Xugen Province that day. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7W, Line 29
- LARRY GENE TAYLORSpecialist Four · August 31, 1970
- HENRY BENNY THOMASSpecialist Four · August 31, 1970
- DOUGLAS PAUL ZERBAPrivate First Class · August 31, 1970
- RANDY CARROLL BRACKINCorporal · September 1, 1970
Same unit, same day
- HARRY CHARLES INMAN IIIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 7W, Line 27
From Battleboro
- JIMMIE HANKERSONPrivate · July 3, 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.