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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lovett Lee Harrell.

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LOVETT LEE HARRELL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 17, 1942 – October 4, 1968

Service record

Lovett Lee Harrell, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 4, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41W · Line 6

Position of Panel 41W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 17, 1942
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 4, 1968
Age
26
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date October 4, 1968; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41W, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.