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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lawrence Edward Philyaw.

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LAWRENCE EDWARD PHILYAW

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 28, 1942 – April 2, 1968

Service record

Lawrence Edward Philyaw, of Bowdens, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 47E · Line 41

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
November 28, 1942
Home of record
Bowdens, North Carolina (Duplin County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 2, 1968
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 47E, Line 41

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.