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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lawrence Earl Hackley.

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LAWRENCE EARL HACKLEY

Captain · U.S. Army

December 23, 1932 – July 18, 1963

Service record

Lawrence Earl Hackley, of Roanoke, Virginia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1963, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 25

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
December 23, 1932
Home of record
Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 18, 1963
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1963. In July 1963, 7 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 25

Same unit, same day

From Roanoke

All 49 names from Roanoke →

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.