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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Nathan Lamar Ingle.

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NATHAN LAMAR INGLE

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

February 16, 1949 – October 23, 1970

Service record

Nathan Lamar Ingle, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 23, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 17

Position of Panel 6W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
February 16, 1949
Home of record
Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 23, 1970
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Five names on the Wall carry the date October 23, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 17

From Chattanooga

All 73 names from Chattanooga →

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.