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DELMER LEE LAWS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 7, 1935 – July 29, 1966
Service recordDelmer Lee Laws, of Mineral Point, Missouri, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on July 29, 1966, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 87
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 7, 1935
- Home of record
- Mineral Point, Missouri (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- July 29, 1966
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date July 29, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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 9E, Line 87
- WILLIAM RAY GOWERCaptain · July 29, 1966
- JAMES SHREVE HALLChief Master Sergeant · July 29, 1966
- ROBERT EUGENE HOSKINSONColonel · July 29, 1966
- ROBERT VOYD LEECHPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DON RUE SAINSpecialist Four · Panel 9E, Line 88
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.