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FRANCIS LAURY PEARSON
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 29, 1944 – April 3, 1969
Service recordFrancis Laury Pearson, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 7
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Ocean Springs, Mississippi (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 7
- ROBERT NICHOLAS PRETESergeant · April 3, 1969
- THOMAS ARTHUR ROSSCaptain · April 3, 1969
- THEODORE VAIL THOMANWarrant Officer 1 · April 3, 1969
- JOSEPH BERNARD TOLERLance Corporal · April 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WILLIAM AGNEWSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 4
From Ocean Springs
- SAMUEL LEE WOODSPrivate First Class · December 19, 1965
- DARRELL CLIFFORD LINTPetty Officer Third Class · January 16, 1968
- CHESTER H TERRY JRSergeant · March 30, 1969
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.