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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Tommy Ross Lawson.

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TOMMY ROSS LAWSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 20, 1948 – June 9, 1969

Service record

Tommy Ross Lawson, of Arapaho, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 22W · Line 3

Position of Panel 22W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 20 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP
Born
September 20, 1948
Home of record
Arapaho, Oklahoma (Custer County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 9, 1969
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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73 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 22W, Line 3

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.