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MAX DUANE LUKENBACH
Commander · U.S. Navy
August 15, 1932 – December 22, 1965
Service recordMax Duane Lukenbach, of Tucson, Arizona, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 22, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- RVAH 13 USS KITTY HAWK CVA 63
- Born
- August 15, 1932
- Home of record
- Tucson, Arizona (Pima County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1965
- Age
- 33
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “RVAH 13 USS KITTY HAWK CVA 63”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 4E, Line 34
- BILLIE JACK CARTWRIGHTCaptain · December 12, 1965
- JIMMIE RAY ISBELLSpecialist Four · December 21, 1965
- ALFRED LOUIS SPITZFADENPrivate First Class · December 21, 1965
- EDWARD FRANK GOLDCommander · December 22, 1965
From Tucson
- JAMES ATLEE WHEELERCaptain · April 18, 1965
- VICTOR BRUCE KELLEYCaptain · April 28, 1965
- JOHN PATRICK BURNSPrivate First Class · July 7, 1965
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM JORDANLance Corporal · July 30, 1965
- BOB CLARENCE HUNT JRSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- CLYDE L NORVELLE JRWarrant Officer 1 · March 30, 1966
- JAMES RILEY HOWELLCorporal · May 12, 1966
- DAVID WILLIAM JOHNSTONPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- WARREN ORISON KNEPPER JRSergeant · June 24, 1966
- ESTEBAN MORALES ALVAREZLance Corporal · July 4, 1966
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.