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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lyman Conrad Bach.

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LYMAN CONRAD BACH

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 22, 1949 – June 2, 1969

Service record

Lyman Conrad Bach, of Medford, Wisconsin, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 41

Position of Panel 23W 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 22, 1949
Home of record
Medford, Wisconsin (Taylor County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 2, 1969
Age
20
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1969; ten of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Medford

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.