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DALE MICHAEL LAUSE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 12, 1946 – September 30, 1967
Service recordDale Michael Lause, of Roseville, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 30, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Roseville, Michigan (Macomb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 30, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 34
- JAMES LEROY HAMMARSpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- ERNEST BEAUEL HANKS IIIPrivate First Class · September 30, 1967
- MICHAEL JOE KRUGSergeant · September 30, 1967
- JACKIE EDWARD TROSPERPrivate First Class · September 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID PAUL COVENYPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 33
- JAMES LEROY HAMMARSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 34
- MICHAEL JOE KRUGSergeant · Panel 27E, Line 34
From Roseville
- RANDALL BOYD PRINZSpecialist Four · April 11, 1966
- TRACY LEE JONESCorporal · February 12, 1967
- STEVEN ROSS KINGCorporal · February 14, 1967
- DOUGLAS C STARRYSpecialist Four · September 25, 1967
- WALTER LEVON CLARKSergeant · October 29, 1967
- GENE DIRITACorporal · December 10, 1967
- HENRY LOUIS OLSONPrivate First Class · December 17, 1967
- FRED HAROLD SPEARPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- GERALD ALBERT HUCZEKCorporal · February 11, 1968
- RICHARD FLOYD TURPIN IIISpecialist Four · May 6, 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.