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JERRY DEE LAWS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 5, 1949 – April 9, 1972
Service recordJerry Dee Laws, of Price, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1972, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 134 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 134
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- September 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Price, Utah (Carbon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1972
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1972; four of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In April 1972, 106 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
He died in Khanh Hoa Province while the Easter Offensive was under way. On 30 March 1972, North Vietnam launched its largest offensive since 1968, attacking across the DMZ, toward An Lộc and into the Central Highlands. By then few U.S. ground troops remained; American advisers and air power fought alongside the South Vietnamese.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 134
- JAMES MICHAEL BARRYSergeant · April 9, 1972
- SCOTT DOUGLAS KETCHIECaptain · April 9, 1972
- DANIEL KENT KUSHNERSergeant · April 9, 1972
- CALVIN CURTIS NASHPrivate First Class · April 9, 1972
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MICHAEL BARRYSergeant · Panel 2W, Line 134
- DANIEL KENT KUSHNERSergeant · Panel 2W, Line 134
- JOSEPH CHARLES SZEKELYSergeant · Panel 2W, Line 135
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.