| LC control no. | nr 99028801 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Colburn, Lawrence M. |
| Variant(s) | Colburn, Larry |
| Located | Mount Vernon (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1949-07-06 |
| Death date | 2016-12-13 |
| Place of birth | Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
| Place of death | Canton (Ga.) |
| Field of activity | My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968 |
| Affiliation | United States. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Gunners, Aerial |
| Found in | 60 minutes. Back to My Lai, c1998 (Larry Colburn, name spoken) My Lai 4, 1970: p. 59 (Lawrence M. Colburn of Mount Vernon, Washington) p. 61 (Larry Colburn; 18 years old in 1968) CNN--Forgotten heroes of My Lai receive honors, Sept. 13, 1999 (Lawrence Colburn; former U.S. Army door gunner) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 20, 2016 (in obituary published Dec. 16: Larry Colburn; b. Lawrence Manley Colburn, July 6, 1949, Coulee Dam, Wash.; d. Tuesday [Dec. 13, 2016], Canton, Ga., aged 67; became an 18-year-old American hero when he intervened with two comrades to halt the massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by United States soldiers in 1968, elevating an innocuous hamlet named My Lai into a watchword for the horrors of war) |
| Associated language | eng |
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