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RICHARD CLIVE LANNOM
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
January 24, 1941 – March 1, 1968
Service recordRichard Clive Lannom, of Union City, Tennessee, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on March 1, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 19
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
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 35
- Born
- January 24, 1941
- Home of record
- Union City, Tennessee (Obion County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 1, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 35”, 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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 19
- STEPHEN THOMAS KUCASFirst Sergeant · March 1, 1968
- DANNY LEDFORDPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- STANLEY REED LEWTERSpecialist Four · March 1, 1968
- FREDERICK BEARD LINKLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EDWIN SCHEURICHCommander · Panel 42E, Line 24
From Union City
- JAMES WILFORD COLLINSPrivate First Class · July 27, 1966
- JAMES WAYNE CHAMBERSSergeant · September 17, 1967
- ROBERT LEWIS TREVATHANPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- JERRY LYNN ANDREWSPrivate First Class · May 11, 1968
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.