The Wall › Panel 57E › Indiana › Phillip Lans Lackey
PHILLIP LANS LACKEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 8, 1948 – May 9, 1968
Service recordPhillip Lans Lackey, of Warsaw, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 26
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Track Vehicle Repairer (63H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Warsaw, Indiana (Kosciusko County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 26
- RONALD NORMAN KOITZSCHSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- DAYTON WAYNE LANIERChief Warrant Officer 2 · May 9, 1968
- BARRY WAYNE LEWISSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- SAMUEL SWANN LINVILLECorporal · May 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW CARL ANDERSENSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 13
- JOSEPH FRANCIS CATT JRSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 16
- ROBERT LEROY COLESpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 16
- QUENTIN HAYESSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 23
- THOMAS ARNOLD SINGLETONSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 33
- PAUL DEIHL WOLFSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 3
From Warsaw
- ROBERT EUGENE TAYLORSergeant · November 5, 1966
- RUSSELL ARDEN POORLieutenant Colonel · February 4, 1967
- JAMES LEE FOREMANSergeant · May 18, 1967
- WILLIAM LEE NELLANSMajor · September 17, 1967
- CHARLES LYNN BANEYSergeant · October 15, 1967
- MICHAEL ALLEN RANDALL SRPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- WILLARD CLINTON DEBOLTCorporal · March 31, 1970
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.