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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Taylor Laslie JR.

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JOSEPH TAYLOR LASLIE JR

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 23, 1944 – May 25, 1968

Service record

Joseph Taylor Laslie JR, of Attapulgus, Georgia, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 68W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 68W · Line 4

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Motor Transport Officer (I) (3501)
Born
December 23, 1944
Home of record
Attapulgus, Georgia (Decatur County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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89 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 68W, Line 4

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.