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LAWRENCE JAY SILVER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
July 28, 1942 – June 13, 1967
Service recordLawrence Jay Silver, of Hartford, Connecticut, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on June 13, 1967, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 99
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- July 28, 1942
- Home of record
- Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 99
- TOMMY LEE SMITHPrivate First Class · June 13, 1967
- BYRON MORROW SPEERSecond Lieutenant · June 13, 1967
- GERALD CAIN STELLESergeant · June 13, 1967
- MANUEL VEGA TORRESSpecialist Four · June 13, 1967
From Hartford
- WALTER ALEXANDER TERLECKISergeant · February 18, 1966
- EDMUND FRANCIS EDDYPrivate First Class · March 28, 1966
- LAWRENCE DANE WOODSCaptain · June 24, 1966
- MALCOLM CRAYTON BERRYPrivate First Class · June 29, 1966
- DAVID KEITH HIGHTFirst Lieutenant · June 30, 1966
- STEPHEN S STRYCHARZ JRLance Corporal · July 15, 1966
- JIMMY LEE LANGSTONPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
- ALLAN PAUL FIRMNECKHospitalman · April 22, 1967
- JAMES STEVEN LEONARDCorporal · May 18, 1967
- WALTER PLATOSZPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
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.