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JOHN DAVID LAWSON
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 19, 1944 – September 1, 1970
Service recordJohn David Lawson, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 1, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 31
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot Vma A-4 Qualified (I) (7501)
- Born
- April 19, 1944
- Home of record
- Topsfield, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 1, 1970
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 31
- BILLY RAY HUNTERSpecialist Five · September 1, 1970
- WILLIAM RUSSELL KERSEY JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 1, 1970
- JAMES ROGERS KINGPrivate First Class · September 1, 1970
- DAVID ROGER NOLLWarrant Officer 1 · September 1, 1970
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.