Lannom, Richard Clive
Navy Lieutenant
Richard Clive Lannom, age 27, from Obrion County Union City, Tennessee .
Spouse: Charlotte
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 1, 1968
Death details: On September 25, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Richard Clive Lannom, missing from the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Lannom joined the U.S. Navy from Tennessee and was a member of Attack Squadron 35, embarked aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN 65). On March 1, 1968, he was the bombardier/navigator aboard an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 15-2944) that took off from the Enterprise on a strike mission against enemy targets northeast of Haiphong, North Vietnam. Radio contact with the Intruder was lost as it approached the target area. It failed to return to the Enterprise following the mission, and search and rescue efforts failed to locate any sign of the aircraft or its crew. In 2017, a set of remains were recovered from an area correlating to the loss of LT Lannom’s Intruder. Forensic analysis led to the identification of these remains as those of LT Lannom. Lieutenant Lannom is memorialized on Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed along with all his fallen comrades on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.
Cemetery: Eastview in Union City
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Dickson Herald (2019)
