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LAFFEY FRANKLIN STRAIT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 2, 1948 – November 30, 1967
Service recordLaffey Franklin Strait, of Doniphan, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 18
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Doniphan, Missouri (Ripley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 18
- HARRY CORNELIUS VANDERKLOOTPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JIMMY LEE WARDPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- SAM DIXON WARLICKSecond Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- WILMER WATSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
From Doniphan
- JERRY LEE WILSONSpecialist Four · August 16, 1968
- OREN LEE CROOKSpecialist Four · March 6, 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.