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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lynn Bachmann JR.

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LYNN BACHMANN JR

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

March 15, 1945 – November 11, 1966

Service record

Lynn Bachmann JR, of Honeoye Falls, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 11, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 53

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Small Arms Repairer/Technician (2111)
Born
March 15, 1945
Home of record
Honeoye Falls, New York (Monroe County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1966
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 53

From Honeoye Falls

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.